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]

R. A. Jorgensen, “Plant science. A window on the sophistication of plants,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6046, pp. 1103–1104, Aug. 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Righelato and D. V. Spracklen, “Environment. Carbon mitigation by biofuels or by saving and restoring forests?,” Science, vol. 317, no. 5840, p. 902, Aug. 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y.-T. Lai, D. Cascio, and T. O. Yeates, “Structure of a 16-nm cage designed by using protein oligomers,” Science, vol. 336, no. 6085, p. 1129, Jun. 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Schultze et al., “Delay in photoemission,” Science, vol. 328, no. 5986, pp. 1658–1662, Jun. 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Kagan and I. Ben-Gal, Probabilistic Search for Tracking Targets. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. Forster and P. Massopust, Eds., Four Short Courses on Harmonic Analysis: Wavelets, Frames, Time-Frequency Methods, and Applications to Signal and Image Analysis. in Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Dragolov, Z. S. Ignácz, J. Lorenz, J. Delhey, K. Boehnke, and K. Unzicker, “Macro-Level Causes and Effects of Social Cohesion,” in Social Cohesion in the Western World: What Holds Societies Together: Insights from the Social Cohesion Radar, Z. S. Ignácz, J. Lorenz, J. Delhey, K. Boehnke, and K. Unzicker, Eds., in SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 59–77.

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]

J. Davis, “Record Breeding Season For The Enigmatic Kākāpō Parrot,” IFLScience, Apr. 25, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/record-breeding-season-enigmatic-k-k-p-parrot/ (accessed Oct. 30, 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, “Screening Partnership Program: TSA Can Benefit from Improved Cost Estimates,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-16-19, Nov. 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Gowda, “Pollination biology and inter-island geographical variation in the mutualistic Heliconia (Heliconiaceae)-hummingbird (Trochilidae) interaction of the Eastern Caribbean Islands,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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]

M. P. Jeffries, “The Rage in Harlem, and Beyond,” New York Times, p. BR18, Aug. 24, 2017.

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	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

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