How to format your references using the Journal of Electronic Packaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Electronic Packaging. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Willyard, C., 2014, “Heritability: The Family Roots of Obesity,” Nature, 508(7496), pp. S58-60.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jacob, Y., and Martienssen, R., 2012, “Molecular Biology. All Packed up and Ready to Go,” Science, 336(6087), pp. 1391–1392.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pouysségur, J., Dayan, F., and Mazure, N. M., 2006, “Hypoxia Signalling in Cancer and Approaches to Enforce Tumour Regression,” Nature, 441(7092), pp. 437–443.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Miller, D. L., Kubista, K. D., Rutter, G. M., Ruan, M., de Heer, W. A., First, P. N., and Stroscio, J. A., 2009, “Observing the Quantization of Zero Mass Carriers in Graphene,” Science, 324(5929), pp. 924–927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tobias, J., and Hochhauser, D., 2014, Cancer and Its Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Truong, T., 2016, Effect of Milk Fat Globule Size on the Physical Functionality of Dairy Products, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Roberts, A. R., and Yeager, K. R., 2012, “Indicatori Della Predisposizione Alla Crisi Da Parte Di Una Persona,” Gli Interventi Sulla Crisi: Una Guida Pratica, K.R. Yeager, ed., Springer, Milano, pp. 11–11.

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 Journal of Electronic Packaging.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014, “Study Indicates Pregnancy Stress Can Affect Four Generations,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-indicates-pregnancy-stress-can-affect-four-generations/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, 1972, Identification of NASA Research and Development Programs Subject to Benefit-Cost Analysis, B-176104, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Learn, D. T., 2012, “Differentiating Instruction on the Basis of Cognitive Tools: A Case Study of Honors and Mainstream Middle School Classes,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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]

Nir, S. M., Mueller, B., and Navarro, M., 2015, “A Tarnished Family Empire,” New York Times, p. MB1.

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	Journal of Electronic Packaging
Abbreviation	J. Electron. Packag.
ISSN (print)	1043-7398
ISSN (online)	1528-9044
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanics of Materials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials