How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials 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	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]

N. Blow, “Transcriptomics: The digital generation,” Nature, vol. 458, no. 7235, pp. 239–242, Mar. 2009.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Sugita and Y. Suzuki, “Audiovisual perception: Implicit estimation of sound-arrival time,” Nature, vol. 421, no. 6926, p. 911, Feb. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. A. Burkle, J. C. Marlin, and T. M. Knight, “Plant-pollinator interactions over 120 years: loss of species, co-occurrence, and function,” Science, vol. 339, no. 6127, pp. 1611–1615, Mar. 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Buhl et al., “From disorder to order in marching locusts,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5778, pp. 1402–1406, Jun. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Boillot, Advanced Smart Grids for Distribution System Operators: Volume 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

[1]

J. Li, From Multiscale Modeling to Meso-Science: A Chemical Engineering Perspective. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Yuen, “Garden and Ecology in the Sky,” in High-Rise Living in Asian Cities, B. Yuen and A. G. O. Yeh, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 65–79.

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 Device and Materials Reliability.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Vets Call For Ban On Using Homeopathy To Treat Animals,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vets-call-for-ban-on-using-homeopathy-to-treat-animals/

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, “A Practical Guide to Federal Enterprise Architecture, Version 1.0 (Extended by GAO-03-584G),” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, P00201, Feb. 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Williams, “Riot Bias: A Textual Analysis of Pussy Riot’s Coverage in Russian and American Media,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2014.

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, “At the Gym Site, Food For Fitness Lovers,” New York Times, p. NJ8, Jan. 01, 2012.

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 Device and Materials Reliability
ISSN (print)	1530-4388
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials