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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Process 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

[1]

S.M. Thompson, Neuroscience. Matching at the synapse, Science 308 (2005) 800–801.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.I. Millar, N.L. Stephenson, Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance, Science 349 (2015) 823–826.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Ohmoto, K.E. Yamaguchi, S. Ono, Questions regarding Precambrian sulfur isotope fractionation, Science 292 (2001) 1959.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.D. Richardson, J.C. Kasper, C. Wang, J.W. Belcher, A.J. Lazarus, Cool heliosheath plasma and deceleration of the upstream solar wind at the termination shock, Nature 454 (2008) 63–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.J. Rossi, Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bain, Rising to the Challenge of Transforming Higher Education: Designing Universities for Learning and Teaching, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Mautone, S. Belluardo, V. Di Paola, L. Romano, G. Foti, R. Manfredi, R.P. Mucelli, Endometriosis, in: R. Manfredi, R. Pozzi Mucelli (Eds.), MRI of the Female and Male Pelvis, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 69–95.

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 Process Control.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Scientists have developed a prototype for self-replicating robots, IFLScience (2013).

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, Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Oversight System Is Effective but Could Benefit from Better Evaluation of Its Programs’ Performance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Mickey, Random Linear Network Coding with Added Prefix Bits, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

B. Sisario, ‘We Shall Overcome’ Moves Closer to Copyright Trial, New York Times (2016) B2.

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 Process Control
Abbreviation	J. Process Control
ISSN (print)	0959-1524
Scope	Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Modelling and Simulation