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 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]

L.S. Kirschner, Medicine. A unified cause for adrenal Cushing’s syndrome, Science 344 (2014) 804–805.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.R. Palumbi, R.R. Warner, Ecology. Why gobies are like Hobbits, Science 299 (2003) 51–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Mulepati, A. Héroux, S. Bailey, Structural biology. Crystal structure of a CRISPR RNA-guided surveillance complex bound to a ssDNA target, Science 345 (2014) 1479–1484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Bhargava, P. Ko, E. Willems, M. Mercola, S. Subramaniam, Quantitative transcriptomics using designed primer-based amplification, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Prydie, I. Hewitt, Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

C. Herrmann, J.P. Terhechte, eds., European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2010, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B.K. Sovacool, B.-O. Linnér, Bloated Bodies: The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina Recovery, in: B.-O. Linnér (Ed.), The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 81–109.

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]

J. Fang, Monster Galaxies Gobble Smaller Neighbors to Bulk Up, IFLScience (2014).

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, Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Hendricks, Playing-With the World: Toy Story’s Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

L. Saslow, Motorists, Take Note: The Bike Path Is Complete, New York Times (2007) LI11.

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