How to format your references using the International Journal of Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of 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	Download the output style file
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

Buesseler, K. O. (2012). Ecology. Fishing for answers off Fukushima. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6106), 480–482.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. (2003). The nature of human altruism. Nature, 425(6960), 785–791.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cavazzana-Calvo, M., Thrasher, A., & Mavilio, F. (2004). The future of gene therapy. Nature, 427(6977), 779–781.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Endres, M., Cheneau, M., Fukuhara, T., Weitenberg, C., Schauss, P., Gross, C., Mazza, L., Bañuls, M. C., Pollet, L., Bloch, I., & Kuhr, S. (2011). Observation of correlated particle-hole pairs and string order in low-dimensional Mott insulators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6053), 200–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf, G. (2011). Tales of the Barbarians. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Wang, Y., & Li, T. (Eds.). (2012). Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Shanghai, China, Dec 2011 (ISKE2011) (Vol. 124). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Henkel, M., & Pleimling, M. (2010). Local Scale-invariance II: z =/ 2. In M. Pleimling (Ed.), Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 2: Ageing and Dynamical Scaling Far from Equilibrium (pp. 291–336). Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Control.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, July 1). Until Recently, Sahara Desert Hosted World’s Largest Freshwater Lake. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sahara-recently-hosted-worlds-largest-freshwater-lake/

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

Government Accountability Office. (1999). Department of Energy: Problems in the Management and Use of Supercomputers (T-RCED-99-257). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilman, D. G. (2013). Comparative analysis of corporate culture in a multinational organization [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Kelly, M. (1992, October 28). Insult My Mom, Please. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Buesseler, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Buesseler, 2012; Fehr & Fischbacher, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fehr & Fischbacher, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Endres et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Control
Abbreviation	Int. J. Control
ISSN (print)	0020-7179
ISSN (online)	1366-5820
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering