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

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

M. A. Rubin, “Tech.Sight. Understanding disease cell by cell,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5571, pp. 1329–1330, May 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. R. Boos and Z. Kuang, “Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating,” Nature, vol. 463, no. 7278, pp. 218–222, Jan. 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Liu, R. A. Neff, and D. K. Berg, “Sequential interplay of nicotinic and GABAergic signaling guides neuronal development,” Science, vol. 314, no. 5805, pp. 1610–1613, Dec. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. F. Z. Batista et al., “Telomere shortening and loss of self-renewal in dyskeratosis congenita induced pluripotent stem cells,” Nature, vol. 474, no. 7351, pp. 399–402, May 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Wagner, Trading ETFs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

S. A. Treese, P. R. Pujadó, and D. S. J. Jones, Eds., Handbook of Petroleum Processing, 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Wang, Z. Liu, and Y. Wu, “Conclusion,” in Human Action Recognition with Depth Cameras, Z. Liu and Y. Wu, Eds., in SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. , Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 57–58.

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 Reliability.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Why Some Geckos Don’t Stick,” IFLScience.

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, “National Airspace System: Long-Term Capacity Planning Needed Despite Recent Reduction in Flight Delays,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-02-185, Dec. 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O. Garibay, “Towards a hybrid approach to mariachi education - Bridging the gap between formal and informal transmission of musical culture,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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, “As Museum Considers Uses for Land, Gardeners Ponder Their Fate,” New York Times, p. 14LI6, Oct. 07, 2007.

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	IEEE Transactions on Reliability
ISSN (print)	0018-9529
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality