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Updated February 2008
These guidelines follow the principles given in the Information for Authors : IEEE Transactions, Journals and Letters published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2003 and the Reference Guide: IEEE Style, University of Illinois at Urbania Champaign, College of Engineering, 1998. An additional source of information on the citation of electronic resources was Numeric Referencing, University of Wales, Swansea, 2004.
IEEE Style uses a notational method of referencing when referring to a source of information within the text of a document. In its simplest form, a citation is given consisting of a number enclosed by square brackets. The full details of the source are given in a numerical reference list at the end of the document.
Each reference number should be enclosed in square brackets on the same line as the text, before any punctuation, with a space before the bracket.
Here are some examples of this kind of referencing :
It is not necessary to mention either the author(s) or the the date of the reference unless it is relevant
to your text.
It is not necessary to say " in reference [26] ..." "In [26] ..." is sufficient.
"In a personal interview with Bill Gates, he suggested that he would soon rule the world."
"In a letter to the author, Professor Mueller detailed his expereinnces with using this data collection software."
A numbered list of references must be provided at the end of the paper. The list should be arranged in the order of citation in the text of the assignment or essay, not in alphabetical order. List only one reference per reference number. Footnotes or other information that are not part of the referencing format should not be included in the reference list.
The following examples demonstrate the format for a variety of types of references. Included are some examples of citing electronic documents. Such items come in many forms, so only some examples have been listed here.
Standard format
[#] A. A. Author/editor, Title: Subtitle (in italics), Edition(if not the first), Vol.(if a multivolume work). Place of publication: Publisher, Year, page number(s) (if appropriate). |
Single author
[1] W.-K. Chen, Linear Networks and Systems. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993, pp. 123-135.
[2] S. M. Hemmington, Soft Science. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Press, 1997.
Edited work
[3] D. Sarunyagate, Ed., Lasers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Later edition
[4] K. Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Management, 3rd ed. Boston: Course Technology, 2004.
[5] M. N. DeMers, Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, 3rd ed. New York : John Wiley, 2005.
More than one author
[6] T. Jordan and P. A. Taylor, Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a cause? London: Routledge, 2004.
[7] U. J. Gelinas, Jr., S. G. Sutton, and J. Fedorowicz, Business processes and information technology. Cincinnati: South-Western/Thomson Learning, 2004.
Three or more authors
Note: The names of all authors should be given in the references unless the number of authors is greater than six. If there are more than six authors, you may use et al. after the name of the first author.
[8] R. Hayes, G. Pisano, D. Upton, and S. Wheelwright, Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the competitive edge. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2005.
Series
[9] M. Bell, et al., Universities Online: A survey of online education and services in Australia, Occasional Paper Series 02-A. Canberra: Department of Education, Science and Training, 2002.
Corporate author (ie: a company or organisation)
[10] World Bank, Information and Communication Technologies: A World Bank group strategy. Washington, DC : World Bank, 2002.
Conference (complete conference proceedings)
[11] T. J. van Weert and R. K. Munro, Eds., Informatics and the Digital Society: Social, ethical and cognitive issues: IFIP TC3/WG3.1&3.2 Open Conference on Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT, July 22-26, 2002, Dortmund, Germany. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2003.
Government publication
[12] Australia. Attorney-Generals Department. Digital Agenda Review, 4 Vols. Canberra: Attorney- General's Department, 2003.
Manual
[13] Bell Telephone Laboratories Technical Staff, Transmission System for Communications, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1995.
Catalogue
[14] Catalog No. MWM-1, Microwave Components, M. W. Microwave Corp., Brooklyn, NY.
Application notes
[15] Hewlett-Packard, Appl. Note 935, pp. 25-29.
Note: Titles of unpublished works are not italicised or capitalised. Capitalise only the first word of a paper or thesis.
Technical report[16] K. E. Elliott and C.M. Greene, "A local adaptive protocol," Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, France, Tech. Rep. 916-1010-BB, 1997.
Patent / Standard
[17] K. Kimura and A. Lipeles, "Fuzzy controller component, " U. S. Patent 14,860,040, December 14, 1996.
Papers presented at conferences (unpublished)[18] H. A. Nimr, "Defuzzification of the outputs of fuzzy controllers," presented at 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.
Thesis or dissertation
[19] H. Zhang, "Delay-insensitive networks," M.S. thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 1997.
[20] M. W. Dixon, "Application of neural networks to solve the routing problem in communication networks," Ph.D. dissertation, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia, 1999.
Note: These examples are for chapters or parts of edited works in which the chapters or parts have individual
title and author/s, but are included in collections or textbooks edited by others. If the editors of a work
are also the authors of all of the included chapters then it should be cited as a whole book using the
examples given above (Books).
Capitalise only the first word of a paper or book chapter.
[#] A. A. Author of Part, "Title of chapter or part," in Title: Subtitle of book, Edition, Vol., A. Editor Ed. Place of publication: Publisher, Year, pp. inclusive page numbers. |
Single chapter from an edited work
[1] A. Rezi and M. Allam, "Techniques in array processing by means of transformations, " in Control and Dynamic Systems, Vol. 69, Multidemsional Systems, C. T. Leondes, Ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995, pp. 133-180.
[2] G. O. Young, "Synthetic structure of industrial plastics," in Plastics, 2nd ed., vol. 3, J. Peters, Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15-64.
Conference or seminar paper (one paper from a published conference proceedings)
[3] N. Osifchin and G. Vau, "Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) countries," in Second International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, 1997, pp. 9-16.
[4] S. Al Kuran, "The prospects for GaAs MESFET technology in dc-ac voltage conversion," in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Portable Design Conference, 1997, pp. 137-142.
Article in an encyclopaedia, signed
[5] O. B. R. Strimpel, "Computer graphics," in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 8th ed., Vol. 4. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 279-283.
Study Guides and Unit Readers
Note: You should not cite from Unit Readers, Study Guides, or lecture notes, but where possible you should go to the original source of the information. If you do need to cite articles from the Unit Reader, treat the Reader articles as if they were book or journal articles. In the reference list or bibliography use the bibliographical details as quoted in the Reader and refer to the page numbers from the Reader, not the original page numbers (unless you have independently consulted the original).
[6] L. Vertelney, M. Arent, and H. Lieberman, "Two disciplines in search of an interface: Reflections on a design problem," in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, B. Laurel, Ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990. Reprinted in Human-Computer Interaction (ICT 235) Readings and Lecture Notes, Vol. 1. Murdoch: Murdoch University, 2005, pp. 32-37.
Standard format
[#] A. A. Author of article. "Title of article," Title of Journal, vol. #, no. #, pp. page number/s, Month year. |
Journal articles
[1] E. P. Wigner, "Theory of traveling wave optical laser," Phys. Rev., vol. 134, pp. A635-A646, Dec. 1965.
[2] J. U. Duncombe, "Infrared navigation - Part I: An assessment of feasability," IEEE Trans. Electron. Devices, vol. ED-11, pp. 34-39, Jan. 1959.
[3] G. Liu, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, "TDM and TWDM de Bruijn networks and shufflenets for optical communications," IEEE Trans. Comp., vol. 46, pp. 695-701, June 1997.
[4] J. R. Beveridge and E. M. Riseman, "How easy is matching 2D line models using local search?" IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, pp. 564-579, June 1997.
[5] I. S. Qamber, "Flow graph development method," Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 1387-1395, Dec. 1993.
[6] E. H. Miller, "A note on reflector arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, to be published.
Standard format
[#] A. Author. Title of E-book. Place: Publisher, Date of original publication. [Format] Available: Source. |
[1] L. Bass, P. Clements, and R. Kazman. Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 2003. [E-book] Available: Safari e-book.
[2] T. Eckes, The Developmental Social Psychology of Gender. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000. [E-book] Available: netLibrary e-book.
Article in online encyclopaedia
[3] D. Ince, "Acoustic coupler," in A Dictionary of the Internet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [Online]. Available: Oxford Reference Online, http://www.oxfordreference.com. [Accessed: May 24, 2005].
[4] W. D. Nance, "Management information system," in The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems, G.B. Davis, Ed. Malden MA: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 138-144. [E-book]. Available: NetLibrary e-book.
Standard format
[#] A. Author, "Title of Article," Title of Journal, vol., no., p. page numbers, month year. [Format]. Available: Database Name (if appropriate), internet address. [Accessed date of access]. |
Journal article abstract accessed from online database
[1] M. T. Kimour and D. Meslati, "Deriving objects from use cases in real-time embedded systems," Information and Software Technology, vol. 47, no. 8, p. 533, June 2005. [Abstract]. Available: ProQuest, http://www.umi.com/proquest/. [Accessed May 12, 2005].
Note: Abstract citations are only included in a reference list if the abstract is substantial or if the full-text of the article could not be accessed.
Journal article from online full-text database
Note: When including the internet address of articles retrieved from searches in full-text databases, please use the Recommended URLs for Full-text Databases, which are the URLs for the main entrance to the service and are easier to reproduce.
[2] H. K. Edwards and V. Sridhar, "Analysis of software requirements engineering exercises in a global virtual team setup," Journal of Global Information Management, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 21+, April-June 2005. [Online]. Available: Academic OneFile, http://find.galegroup.com. [Accessed May 31, 2005].
[3] A. Holub, "Is software engineering an oxymoron?" Software Development Times, p. 28+, March 2005. [Online]. Available: ProQuest, http://il.proquest.com. [Accessed May 23, 2005].
Journal article in a scholarly journal (published free of charge on the internet)
[4] A. Altun, "Understanding hypertext in the context of reading on the web: Language learners' experience," Current Issues in Education, vol. 6, no. 12, July 2003. [Online]. Available: http://cie.ed.asu.edu/volume6/number12/. [Accessed Dec. 2, 2004].
Journal article in electronic journal subscription
[5] P. H. C. Eilers and J. J. Goeman, "Enhancing scatterplots with smoothed densities," Bioinformatics, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 623-628, March 2004. [Online]. Available: www.oxfordjournals.org. [Accessed Sept. 18, 2004].
Newspaper article from online database
[6] J. Riley, "Call for new look at skilled migrants," The Australian, p. 35, May 31, 2005. Available: Factiva, http://global.factiva.com. [Accessed May 31, 2005].
Newspaper article from the Internet
[7] C. Wilson-Clark, "Computers ranked as key literacy," The West Australian, para. 3, March 29, 2004. [Online]. Available: http://www.thewest.com.au. [Accessed Sept. 18, 2004].
Standard format
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[#] A. Author, "Document title," Webpage name, Source/production information, Date of internet publication. [Format]. Available: internet address. [Accessed: Date of access]. |
Professional Internet site
[1] European Telecommunications Standards Institute, “Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB): Implementation guidelines for DVB terrestrial services; transmission aspects,” European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI TR-101-190, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://www.etsi.org. [Accessed: Aug. 17, 1998].
Personal Internet site
[2] G. Sussman, "Home page - Dr. Gerald Sussman," July 2002. [Online]. Available: http://www.comm.pdx.edu/faculty/Sussman/sussmanpage.htm [Accessed: Sept. 12, 2004].
General Internet site
[3] J. Geralds, "Sega Ends Production of Dreamcast," vnunet.com, para. 2, Jan. 31, 2001. [Online]. Available: http://nl1.vnunet.com/news/1116995. [Accessed: Sept. 12, 2004].
Internet document, no author given
[4] “A ‘layman’s’ explanation of Ultra Narrow Band technology,” Oct. 3, 2003. [Online]. Available: http://www.vmsk.org/Layman.pdf. [Accessed: Dec. 3, 2003].
[#] A. A. Person, Responsibility (if appropriate), Title: Subtitle. [Format]. Special credits (if appropriate). Place of publication: Publisher, Year. |
[2] S. Gary, Presenter, “Black Hole Death Ray”, StarStuff, Dec. 23, 2007. [Podcast radio programme]. Sydney: ABC News Radio. Available: http://abc.net.au/newsradio/podcast/STARSTUFF.xml. [Accessed Feb. 4, 2008].
[3] W. D. Scott & Co, Information Technology in Australia: Capacities and opportunities: A report to the Department of Science and Technology. [Microform]. W. D. Scott & Company Pty. Ltd. in association with Arthur D. Little Inc. Canberra: Department of Science and Technology, 1984.
Computer game
[4] The Hobbit: The prelude to the Lord of the Rings. [CD-ROM]. United Kingdom: Vivendi Universal Games, 2003.
Software
[5] Thomson ISI, EndNote 7. [CD-ROM]. Berkeley, Ca.: ISI ResearchSoft, 2003.
Video recording
[6] C. Rogers, Writer and Director, Grrls in IT. [Videorecording]. Bendigo, Vic. : Video Education Australasia, 1999.
The reference list should appear at the end of your paper. Begin the list on a new page. The title References should be either left justified or centered on the page. The entries should appear as one numerical sequence in the order that the material is cited in the text of your assignment.
Note: The hanging indent for each reference makes the numerical sequence more obvious.
[1] A. Rezi and M. Allam, "Techniques in array processing by means of transformations, " in Control and Dynamic Systems, Vol. 69, Multidemsional Systems, C. T. Leondes, Ed. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995, pp. 133-180.
[2] G. O. Young, "Synthetic structure of industrial plastics," in Plastics, 2nd ed., vol. 3, J. Peters, Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15-64.
[3] S. M. Hemmington, Soft Science. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Press, 1997.
[4] N. Osifchin and G. Vau, "Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) countries," in Second International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, 1997, pp. 9-16.
[5] D. Sarunyagate, Ed., Lasers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
[8] O. B. R. Strimpel, "Computer graphics," in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 8th ed., Vol. 4. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, pp. 279-283.
[9] K. Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Management, 3rd ed. Boston: Course Technology, 2004.
[10] M. N. DeMers, Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, 3rd ed. New York: John Wiley, 2005.
[11] L. Vertelney, M. Arent, and H. Lieberman, "Two disciplines in search of an interface: Reflections on a design problem," in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, B. Laurel, Ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990. Reprinted in Human-Computer Interaction (ICT 235) Readings and Lecture Notes, Vol. 1. Murdoch: Murdoch University, 2005, pp. 32-37.
[12] E. P. Wigner, "Theory of traveling wave optical laser," Physical Review, vol.134, pp. A635-A646, Dec. 1965.
[13] J. U. Duncombe, "Infrared navigation - Part I: An assessment of feasibility," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. ED-11, pp. 34-39, Jan. 1959.
[14] M. Bell, et al., Universities Online: A survey of online education and services in Australia, Occasional Paper Series 02-A. Canberra: Department of Education, Science and Training, 2002.
[15] T. J. van Weert and R. K. Munro, Eds., Informatics and the Digital Society: Social, ethical and cognitive issues: IFIP TC3/WG3.1&3.2 Open Conference on Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT, July 22-26, 2002, Dortmund, Germany. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2003.
[16] I. S. Qamber, "Flow graph development method," Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 1387-1395, Dec. 1993.
[17] Australia. Attorney-Generals Department. Digital Agenda Review, 4 Vols. Canberra: Attorney- General's Department, 2003.
[18] C. Rogers, Writer and Director, Grrls in IT. [Videorecording]. Bendigo, Vic.: Video Education Australasia, 1999.
[19] L. Bass, P. Clements, and R. Kazman. Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 2003. [E-book] Available: Safari e-book.
[20] D. Ince, "Acoustic coupler," in A Dictionary of the Internet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [Online]. Available: Oxford Reference Online, http://www.oxfordreference.com. [Accessed: May 24, 2005].
[21] H. K. Edwards and V. Sridhar, "Analysis of software requirements engineering exercises in a global virtual team setup," Journal of Global Information Management, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 21+, April-June 2005. [Online]. Available: Academic OneFile, http://find.galegroup.com. [Accessed May 31, 2005].
[22] A. Holub, "Is software engineering an oxymoron?" Software Development Times, p. 28+, March 2005. [Online]. Available: ProQuest, http://il.proquest.com. [Accessed May 23, 2005].
[23] H. Zhang, "Delay-insensitive networks," M.S. thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 1997.
[24] P. H. C. Eilers and J. J. Goeman, "Enhancing scatterplots with smoothed densities," Bioinformatics, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 623-628, March 2004. [Online]. Available: www.oxfordjournals.org. [Accessed Sept. 18, 2004].
[25] “AlphaCom Communications introduces VMSK technology,” The Business Journal Online, May, 2000. [Online]. Available: http://www.business-journal.com/LateMay00/Alpha.html. [Accessed: May 2, 2000].
[26] J. Riley, "Call for new look at skilled migrants," The Australian, p. 35, May 31, 2005. Available: Factiva, http://global.factiva.com. [Accessed May 31, 2005].
[27] European Telecommunications Standards Institute, “Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB): Implementation guidelines for DVB terrestrial services; transmission aspects,” European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI TR-101-190, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://www.etsi.org. [Accessed: Aug. 17, 1998].
[28] J. Geralds, "Sega Ends Production of Dreamcast," vnunet.com, para. 2, Jan. 31, 2001. [Online]. Available: http://nl1.vnunet.com/news/1116995. [Accessed Sept. 12, 2004].
[29] W. D. Scott & Co, Information Technology in Australia: Capacities and opportunities: A report to the Department of Science and Technology. [Microform]. W. D. Scott & Company Pty. Ltd. in association with Arthur D. Little Inc. Canberra: Department of Science and Technology, 1984.
[30] “A ‘layman’s’ explanation of Ultra Narrow Band technology,” Oct. 3, 2003. [Online]. Available: http://www.vmsk.org/Layman.pdf. [Accessed: Dec. 3, 2003].
| Ed./Eds. | editor/editors |
| ed. | edition |
| et al. | and others |
| no. | number |
| p./pp. | page/pages |
| para. | paragraph |
| pt. | part |
| rev. | revised |
| suppl. | supplement |
| Vol. | Volume (book) |
| vol. | volume (journal) |
Note: This list of examples is in no way exhaustive. Only the most often-used types of references are listed here. Refer to the following publications for more information on citing references:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., IEEE Transactions, Journals and Letters: Information for authors. Piscataway NJ: IEEE, 2003. Available: http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/transactions/auinfo03.pdf. [Accessed May 20, 2005]
University of Illinois, College of Engineering, Reference Guide: IEEE style. Urbana-Champaign IL: University of Illinois, 1998. Available: http://www.ece.uiuc.edu.edu/pubs/ref_guides/ieee.html. [Accessed May 20, 2005].
University of Wales, Library and Information Services, Numeric referencing: Examples of reference types. Swansea: University of Wales, 2004. Available: http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/help_and_training/htmdocs/bibliographic_referencing/numeric_referencing_examples.asp. [Accessed May 24, 2005].
University of Wales, Library and Information Services, Numeric referencing: Overview. Swansea: University of Wales, 2004. Available: http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/help_and_training/htmdocs/bibliographic_referencing/numeric_referencing_overview.asp. [Accessed May 24, 2005].
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