How to format your references using the Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems. 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. Ciotti L. Galaxy formation: Anatomy of elliptical galaxies. Nature. 2009;460:333–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zahn M, von Storch H. Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming. Nature. 2010;467:309–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tao C, Cullen WG, Williams ED. Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures. Science. 2010;328:736–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lafferentz L, Ample F, Yu H, Hecht S, Joachim C, Grill L. Conductance of a single conjugated polymer as a continuous function of its length. Science. 2009;323:1193–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bauer E. Design for Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Kothe E, Varma A, editors. Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Druguet E, Rahimi A, Carreras J, Castaño LM, Sánchez-Sorribes I. The Geoheritage of Kerdous Inlier (Western Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Pages of Earth History in an Outstanding Landscape. In: Errami E, Brocx M, Semeniuk V, editors. From Geoheritage to Geoparks: Case Studies from Africa and Beyond. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 81–90.

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 Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Exploding Battery Fears Cause Samsung To Recall Every Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/exploding-battery-fears-cause-samsung-to-recall-every-galaxy-note-7-smartphone/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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. NASA Procurement: Management Oversight of Contract Costs and Time Changes Could Be Enhanced. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Sep. Report No.: NSIAD-91-259.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chakravarty S. Harvesting health: Fertilizer, nutrition and AIDS treatment in Kenya [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2009.

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. Pilon M, Belson K. Seau Had Brain Disease Found in Other Ex-Players. New York Times. 2013 Jan 10;B13.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems
Abbreviation	J. Dyn. Control Syst.
ISSN (print)	1079-2724
ISSN (online)	1573-8698
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering Algebra and Number Theory Control and Optimization Numerical Analysis