How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J. Kaiser, “What does a disease deserve?,” Science, vol. 350, no. 6263, pp. 900–902, Nov. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Ohtomo and H. Y. Hwang, “A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface,” Nature, vol. 427, no. 6973, pp. 423–426, Jan. 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. O. Marston, P. W. Riker, and S. T. Thoroddsen, “Generation of ultra-sound during tape peeling,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4326, Mar. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Á. Szénási, Z. Pálinkás, M. Zalai, O. J. Schmitz, and A. Balog, “Short-term effects of different genetically modified maize varieties on arthropod food web properties: an experimental field assessment,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5315, Jun. 2014.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

M. Soustelle, Ionic and Electrochemical Equilibria. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Davis and E. Schonberg, Eds., From Linear Operators to Computational Biology: Essays in Memory of Jacob T. Schwartz. London: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Dassios, “Electric and Magnetic Activity of the Brain in Spherical and Ellipsoidal Geometry,” in Mathematical Modeling in Biomedical Imaging I: Electrical and Ultrasound Tomographies, Anomaly Detection, and Brain Imaging, H. Ammari, Ed., in Lecture Notes in Mathematics. , Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 133–202.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Fear Of Death Underlies Most Of Our Phobias,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/fear-death-underlies-most-our-phobias/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Actions to Strengthen Its Enforcement Program,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-985T, Jul. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Fang, “Do media help deter financial misreporting?,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

K. Feeney, “A Certifiably Green Cafe,” New York Times, p. NJ9, May 22, 2011.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr.
ISSN (print)	0018-9286
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering