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

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

H. L. Fields, “Neuroscience. More pain; less gain,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6196, pp. 513–514, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Poucet and F. Sargolini, “Neuroscience. A trace of your place,” Science, vol. 340, no. 6128, pp. 35–36, Apr. 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Kayukawa, K. Tateishi, and T. Shinoda, “Establishment of a versatile cell line for juvenile hormone signaling analysis in Tribolium castaneum,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 1570, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Aguilaniu, L. Gustafsson, M. Rigoulet, and T. Nyström, “Asymmetric inheritance of oxidatively damaged proteins during cytokinesis,” Science, vol. 299, no. 5613, pp. 1751–1753, Mar. 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Edwards, Telecosmos. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

An edited book

[1]

E. Raposio, Ed., Atlas of Endoscopic Plastic Surgery, 1st ed. 2016. 1st ed. 2016.Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Jiang, T. Sun, J. Li, and Y. Yun, “A Novel Real-Time MPEG-2 Video Watermarking Scheme in Copyright Protection,” in Digital Watermarking: 7th International Workshop, IWDW 2008, Busan, Korea, November 10-12, 2008. Selected Papers, H.-J. Kim, S. Katzenbeisser, and A. T. S. Ho, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 45–51.

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 Reliability.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Paralysed Patient Makes Natural Movements Using Robotics And The Power Of Thought,” IFLScience, May 26, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/paralysed-patient-makes-natural-movements-using-robotics-and-power-thought/ (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, “Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-08-899T, Jun. 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. K. Eisenbeiser, “Parents’ Experience of Involvement in the Lives of Community College Students: A Phenomenological Study,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 2012.

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. M. Chapman, “U.A.W. Leaders Approve Proposed G.M. Contract,” New York Times, p. B3, Oct. 29, 2015.

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 Reliability
ISSN (print)	0018-9529
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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