How to format your references using the Reliability Engineering and System Safety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 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]

Lawler A. ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Silent No Longer: “Model Minority” Mobilizes. Science 2000;290:1072–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Miklius A, Cervelli P. Vulcanology: Interaction between Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Nature 2003;421:229.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sale JE, Patel KJ, Batista FD. Retrospective. Michael Neuberger (1953-2013). Science 2013;342:1335.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Painter HJ, Morrisey JM, Mather MW, Vaidya AB. Specific role of mitochondrial electron transport in blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum. Nature 2007;446:88–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

MacGowan C. The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Reddy GV. Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kang K, Zhang J, Cao Y, Wang Z. Simultaneously Retargeting and Super-Resolution for Stereoscopic Video. In: Zha H, Chen X, Wang L, Miao Q, editors. Computer Vision: CCF Chinese Conference, CCCV 2015, Xi’an, China, September 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 31–40.

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 Reliability Engineering and System Safety.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Watch Live As SpaceX Attempts To Launch And Land Its Latest Rocket Again Today. IFLScience 2016.

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. District of Columbia Public Schools: Student Enrollment Count Remains Vulnerable to Errors. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Aggarwal E. South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Barry E. Harsh Light Falls on Bolshoi After Acid Attack. New York Times 2013:A1.

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	Reliability Engineering and System Safety
Abbreviation	Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf.
ISSN (print)	0951-8320
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality