A method of a user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving CSI reporting configuration information, generating a CSI report comprising at least one of a rank indicator (RI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), or a CSI-RS resource indicator (CRI) based on the CSI reporting configuration information, determining a number of bits of a payload included in the CSI report, and selecting at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) Format or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the number of bits of the payload included in the CSI report to transmit the CSI report.