IEEE Style Resources
The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional organization supporting many branches of engineering, computer science, and information technology. In addition to publishing journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, IEEE also makes many standards for a wide variety of industries.
IEEE citation style includes in-text citations, numbered in square brackets, which refer to the full citation listed in the reference list at the end of the paper. The reference list is organized numerically, not alphabetically. References are number sequentially, in the order in which they appear in the text.
In this example, the author provides an in-text citation for reference list item 4, as a number enclosed by square brackets:
The Reference list at the end of the document provides provides full details of the source. Each reference item is numbered, in the order that they appear in the text.
The basic format for a book is: [#] Author,Title, volume, edition. City, State, Country: Publisher, year.
- IEEE Editorial Style ManualComplete instructions for authors using IEEE format, including parts of a paper, citations and references, figures and tables, grammar and writing style.
- IEEE Article TemplatesIEEE provides downloadable templates with detailed information for editing and formatting papers for submission to IEEE publications.
- IEEE Article TemplatesIEEE provides downloadable templates with detailed information for editing and formatting papers for submission to IEEE publications.
- IEEE Author Tools - Structure Your ArticleLearn about the elements that organize a typical IEEE journal article and how to compose your work to help communicate your ideas more clearly.
- IEEE Style Resources from Purdue OWLProvides a basic overview of IEEE style, formatting, and citations.