How to format your references using the Microelectronics Reliability citation style

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

J.-D. Rochaix, Plant science. Fine-tuning photosynthesis, Science 342 (2013) 50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Johansson, V. Letokhov, Resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization of ions by Lyman alpha radiation in gaseous nebulae, Science 291 (2001) 625–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.J. Morris, O.T. Lewis, H.C.J. Godfray, Experimental evidence for apparent competition in a tropical forest food web, Nature 428 (2004) 310–313.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.V. Soldatov, G. Roth, A. Dzyabchenko, D. Johnels, S. Lebedkin, C. Meingast, B. Sundqvist, M. Haluska, H. Kuzmany, Topochemical polymerization of C70 controlled by monomer crystal packing, Science 293 (2001) 680–683.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Braha, G. Groza, Moderne Abwassertechnik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

H. Olsen, The Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.W. Thatcher, Higher-Order Network Reworking – New Findings, in: M. Ferrari, L. Vuletic (Eds.), The Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education: Essays in Honor of Robbie Case, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 83–104.

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 Microelectronics Reliability.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Can You Solve The Murder Mystery Of The Phantom Fire?, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/solve-murder-mystery-killer-phantom-fire/ (accessed October 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, Software Licenses: DOD’s Plan to Collect Inventory Data Meets Statutory Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.W. Trahan, Large-scale 20th Century Warming Identified in the East Siberian Arctic Using Tree-ring Carbon Isotope Records, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

K. Feeney, Deliciousness From Italy, New York Times (2009) NJ11.

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	Microelectronics Reliability
Abbreviation	Microelectron. Reliab.
ISSN (print)	0026-2714
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics