The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional organization which supports several types of engineers, publishes content on engineering topics, and establishes standards for many industries.
IEEE Citation is a little different from other citation styles. Here's a few things to remember when formatting your citation using this style.
Refer to each source with a number in brackets and inside the punctuation.
Number your sources as they are cited in your paper.
Examples
Terminology for algorithms was first standardized in 1990 [1].
This theory was tested repeatedly and found to have flaws in its implementation [4].
Einstein [3] stated that...
Be thorough, but leave out any information you do not have when formatting your reference list.
Anytime you have a sources you access through the web, add as much of the following information as you can to the end of your citation: date accessed, doi (Digital Object Identifier), the type of medium, and available at URL.
Books
Format
J.K. Author, Title of Book, edition. City of Publisher, State, Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, chapter x, section x, pp. xx-xx.
Examples
[1] E. Finn, What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2017.
[2] J. Smed and H. Hakonen, Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games, 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2017.
Periodicals
Format
J.K. Author, "Name of article," Abbreviated Title of Periodical, vol x, no. x, pp xx-xx, Abbreviated month, year.
Examples
[1] I. Saniee, "Scalable algorithms for large and dynamic networks: reducing big data for small computations," Bell Labs Tech. J., vol. 20, pp. 23-33, Jun., 2015. Accessed on Sept 19, 2017. doi: 10.15325/BLTJ2015.2437465, [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7137721/.
[2] F. Lin et al., "Multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on nondominated sorting and bidirectional local search for big data," IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat., vol. 13, no. 4, Aug., 2017.
[3] S. Rani, S.H. Ahmed, R. Talwar, and J. Malhotra, "Can sensors collect big data? An energy-efficient big data gathering algorithm for a WSN," IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat., vol. 13, no. 4, Aug., 2017. Accessed Sept. 19, 2017. doi: 10.1109/TII.2017.2656899. [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7829299/.
Conference Papers
Format
J.K. Author, "Title of Paper," in Abbreviated Name of Conference, (conference location optional), year, pp. xx-xx.
Examples
[1] A.P. Plageras and K.E. Psannis, "Algorithms for Big Data Deliver over the Internet of Things," in 2017 IEEE 19th Conf. Bus. Informatics.
[2] R. Romero-Zaliz, A. Gonzales, and R. Perez, "Incremental fuzzy learning algorithms in big data problems: a study on the size of learning subsets," in 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. Fuzzy Syst. [Online]. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8015671/
Standards
Format
Title of Standard, Standard number, date.
Examples
[1] IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology, IEEE Standard 610.12, 1990.
[2] Standard Practice for Special Requirements for Bumper Boats, ASTM Standard F2460, 2011.
Website
Format
J.K. Author. "Page Title." Website Title. Web Address (accessed date).
Example
[1] T. Spencer. "Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records." Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2019-06-florida-city-ransom.html (accessed June 19, 2019).
IEEE Style uses abbreviatations for certain words in conference and journal publication titles. Here's a few of the most common abbreviations:
| Full Word in Publication Title | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Annals | Ann. |
| Annual | Annu. |
| Colloquium | Colloq. |
| Conference | Conf. |
| Digest | Dig. |
| International | Int. |
| National | Nat. |
| Proceedings | Proc. |
| First | 1st |
| Engineering | Eng. |
| Journal | J. |
For more official IEEE abbreviations, check here:
