How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability. 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]

P. Bloom, “Behavior. Can a dog learn a word?,” Science, vol. 304, no. 5677, pp. 1605–1606, Jun. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. R. Insel and B. N. Cuthbert, “Medicine. Brain disorders? Precisely,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6234, pp. 499–500, May 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. A. Baxt, A. C. Garza-Mayers, and M. B. Goldberg, “Bacterial subversion of host innate immune pathways,” Science, vol. 340, no. 6133, pp. 697–701, May 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Dang et al., “Histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation regulates cellular lifespan,” Nature, vol. 459, no. 7248, pp. 802–807, Jun. 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. S. Pakurar and J. W. Bigbee, Digital Histology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J. M. Ferrández Vicente, J. R. Álvarez-Sánchez, F. de la Paz López, F. J. Toledo-Moreo, and H. Adeli, Eds., Bioinspired Computation in Artificial Systems: International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2015, Elche, Spain, June 1-5, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, vol. 9108. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Callinicos, “Marxism: and the Very Idea of Critical Political Economy,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy, A. Cafruny, L. S. Talani, and G. Pozo Martin, Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, pp. 49–65.

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 Device and Materials Reliability.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Teenage Suicide Attempts Fall In The US After Same-Sex Marriage Is Legalized,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/teenage-suicide-attempts-fall-in-the-us-after-samesex-marriage-is-legalized/

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, “Federal Research: Information on the Advanced Technology Program’s 1997 Award Selection,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-98-82R, Feb. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Randall, “Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

J. Lanchester, “What the West Can Learn From Japan About the Cultural Value of Work,” New York Times, p. MM20, Dec. 13, 2016.

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 Device and Materials Reliability
ISSN (print)	1530-4388
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials