How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

D. M. Eagleman, “Comment on ‘The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret,’” Science, vol. 308, no. 5726, pp. 1260; author reply 1260, May 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Nogueiras and M. Tschöp, “Biomedicine. Separation of conjoined hormones yields appetite rivals,” Science, vol. 310, no. 5750, pp. 985–986, Nov. 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. R. Roscioli, L. R. McCunn, and M. A. Johnson, “Quantum structure of the intermolecular proton bond,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5822, pp. 249–254, Apr. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Yan et al., “Sterically controlled mechanochemistry under hydrostatic pressure,” Nature, vol. 554, no. 7693, pp. 505–510, Feb. 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Ezra, B. Collie, and M. X. Smith, The Retirement Plan Solution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

[1]

T. Müller, Ed., Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action, vol. 2. in Outstanding Contributions to Logic, vol. 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Bhidayasiri and D. Tarsy, “Tremor-Dominant Parkinson’s Disease,” in Movement Disorders: A Video Atlas: A Video Atlas, D. Tarsy, Ed., Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2012, pp. 8–9.

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 Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “How Can We Tell What Color An Extinct Animal Was?,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-tell-what-color-extinct-animal-was/

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, “U.S. Government Actions Affecting Rice Sales to Korea,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, ID-83-48, May 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Y. Perilla, “Support group for neonatal intensive care families: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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. Crow, “The Newest Tower: Working 24/7,” New York Times, p. 1414, Dec. 09, 2001.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Compon. Packaging Manuf. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2156-3950
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials