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]

Hirose K. Geochemistry. Deep mantle properties. Science 2010;327:151–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chenn A, Walsh CA. Regulation of cerebral cortical size by control of cell cycle exit in neural precursors. Science 2002;297:365–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Niu M, Cheng D, Cao D. SiH/TiO2 and GeH/TiO2 heterojunctions: promising TiO2-based photocatalysts under visible light. Sci Rep 2014;4:4810.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Geuking MB, Weber J, Dewannieux M, Gorelik E, Heidmann T, Hengartner H, et al. Recombination of retrotransposon and exogenous RNA virus results in nonretroviral cDNA integration. Science 2009;323:393–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Temple LP III. Implosion. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Lu MQ, editor. Approaching China’s Pharmaceutical Market: A Fundamental Guide to Clinical Drug Development. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Freudenburg WR, Gramling R, Laska S, Erikson KT. The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans. In: Gramling R, Laska S, Erikson KT, editors. Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow, Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2012, p. 55–66.

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]

Taub B. Tortoise Gets A Set Of Wheels After Injuring Legs Having Sex. IFLScience 2017.

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Review of Project Selection Process for Five FHWA Discretionary Programs. 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]

Fisher A-C. Exceptionality and parent -professional conflict: Causes, prevention and resolution. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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]

Shpigel B. Patriots Feast on Petty, as on So Many Others. New York Times 2016:SP3.

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