How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

N. Gisin, “Physics. New additions to the Schrödinger cat family,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5770, pp. 63–64, Apr. 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. D’Anna and G. Gremaud, “The jamming route to the glass state in weakly perturbed granular media,” Nature, vol. 413, no. 6854, pp. 407–409, Sep. 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Mabe, T. Nagamune, and M. Kawahara, “Detecting protein-protein interactions based on kinase-mediated growth induction of mammalian cells,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 6127, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. R. Aricescu et al., “Structure of a tyrosine phosphatase adhesive interaction reveals a spacer-clamp mechanism,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5842, pp. 1217–1220, Aug. 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.-C. G. Vassiliou, Discrete-time Asset Pricing Models in Applied Stochastic Finance. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S. Ossowski, Ed., Agreement Technologies, vol. 8. in Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol. 8. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. C. Banyard and S. Parida, “Molecular Epidemiology of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus,” in Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus, M. Munir, Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, pp. 69–93.

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 Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “HIV Undetectable In Two Patients Following Cancer Treatment,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-undetectable-two-patients-following-cancer-treatment/

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, “Technology Assessment: Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-17-75, May 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. C. Okafor-Dike, “The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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]

G. Johnson, “Still Exerting a Hold on Science,” New York Times, p. D3, Jun. 24, 2014.

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 Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Compon. Packaging Manuf. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2156-3950
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials