SAMPLE REFERENCES, IEEE FORMAT

From EE155 Course Notes Fall 1998 (Electrical Engineering Seminar),

and EE333T Course Notes (Technical Communications)

Book
[1] P.M. Morse and H. Feshback, Methods of Theoretical Physics. New York: McGraw
Hill, 1953.
Journal Article
[2] S.K. Kenue and J.F. Greenleaf, “Limited angle multifrequency diffiaction
tomography,” IEEE Trans. Sonics Ultrason., vol. SU-29, no. 6, pp. 213-2 17, July
1982.
New edition of a book
[3] C. Brusaw, C. Aired, and W. Oliu, Handbook of Technical Writing, 3rd ed. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
Article in an Anthology
[4] G.J. Broadhead, “Style in technical and scientific writing.” In M.G. Moran and D.
Joumet, eds. Research in Technical Communication. A Bibliographic Sourcebook,
pp. 379-401. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Translation
[5] M.M. Botvinnik, Computers in Chess: Solving Inexact Search Problems. Translated
by A. Brown, Berlin: Springer-Verlap, 1984.
Personal Interview/Communication
[6] Interview [or Personal Communication] with Prof. Elmer Hixon, BCE Department,
The University of Texas at Austin, March 12, 1995. [Date omitted if unknown.]
Handbook/date book, no author
[7] Handbook for Writing Operation and Maintenance Manuals. Washington, D.C.:
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, 1973.
[8] Interface Circuits Data Book, Texas Instruments, Austin, Texas, 1993.
[9] User’s Guide: Microsoft Word, Vers. 5.0, Microsoft, 1991.
Encyclopedia Entry
No author given:
[10] “Sonar,” Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1984 ed.
Author(s) given:
[11] A.D. Pearson, J.B. MacChesney, and W.G. French, “Fiber optics,” in Encyclopedia
of Semiconductor Technology, M. Grayson, Ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons,
1984.
Online:
[12] “Greyhound,” Brittanica Online, Beta Version 96.1, March 1996.

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Course Notes
[13] J. K. Jones, Lab Notes for EE464K, Senior Projects, The University of Texas at
Austin, fall semester, 1994.
Dissertation or thesis
[14] B. Tsikos, “Segmentation of 3-D scenes using multi-modal interaction between
machine vision and programmable mechanical scene manipulation,” Ph.D.
dissertation, Univ. of Pennsylvania, BCE Dept., Philadelphia, 1987. [Add if
applicable: University Microfilms, Inc., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan.]
Proceedings paper
[15] R. Finkel, R. Taylor, R. Bolles, R. Paul, and J. Feldman, “An overview of AL,
programming system for automation,” in Proc. Fourth Int. Joint Conf Artif. Intell.,
pp. 758-765, Sept. 3-7, 1975.
Patent
[16] L.O. Norman, U.S. Patent 4 379 752, 1983. [Title of patent may be included.]
Newspaper article
[17] “Technology threatens to shatter the world of college textbooks, The Wall Street
Journal, vol 91, pp. Al, A8, June 1, 1993.
Government publication
[18] Basic Facts about Patents. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989.
Technical Report
[19] R. Cox and J. S. Turner, “Project Zeus: design of a broadband network and its
application on a university campus,” Washington Univ., Dept. of Comp. Sci.,
Technical Report WUCS-91-45, July 30, 1991.
Letter/E-mail
[20] Letter from J. M. Beck, Project Manager, TI, Bedford, Utah, Sept. 3, 1996.
Software
[21] M. Janzen, Instant Access Accounting. Computer software. Nexus Software, Inc
IBM-PC, 1993.
Electronic bulletin board
[22] AIDS Info BBS. [San Francisco (CA): Ron Gardner]. Available from: 415-626-
1246.
Database/online
[23] R. Duncan, “An HTML primer,” PC Magazine, June 13, 1995, v14, n11 p. 261(7)
in Academic Index (database on UTCAT PLUS system).
[24] R. Berdan and M. Garcia, Discourse-Sensitive Measurement of Language
Development in Bilingual Children (Los Alamitos, CA: National Center for
Bilingual Research, 1982) (ERIC ED 234 636).

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World Wide Web (give author and title if named)
[25] Fuminao Okumura and Hajime Takagi, “Maglev Guideway On the Yamanashi Test
Line,” http://www.rtri.or.jp/rd/maglev2/okumura.html, October 24, 1998.
[26] “AT&T Supplies First CDMA Cellular System in Indonesia,”
http://www.att.com/press/1095/951011.nsa.html, Feb 5, 1996.

PROCEDURES
1. In the body of your text refer to the source of your information by inserting consecutive
numbers in brackets at the end of each segment of cited information—like this [1]. These
reference numbers can also be inserted within a sentence [2], without changing the
sentence’s punctuation. You may also cite your reference in your text as follows: “As
Smithsky [3] points out,..
2. Unless you are referring to a complete book or article, you will also need to identify the page
number(s) of your source of information. Indicate exact page numbers of a source within
your brackets after a comma [4, pp. 3-6], or by a simple rhetorical device in your text such as
“However, on page 79 of [5] the author seems to contradict himself when he states. If you . .“

must refer to more than one separate page or source in the same reference, use semicolons for
separation: [6, p. 46; 7, pp. 29-31; 9, pp. 8-12].
3. Once you have numbered a source use the same number for all subsequent references to that
source. References at the end of quotation marks “are punctuated with the period after the
reference” [8, p. 23].

REFERENCE PAGE FORMAT

• Always use square brackets around reference numbers [10, pp. 78-85] to distinguish from
equation numbers, which are given in parentheses (6).
• Single space individual references, with no indentation for a second or third line. Double
space between separate references.
• Use a common abbreviation for a journal title if there is one, e.g. IEEE Electron Device Lett.
Otherwise give the full name of the journal.
• End each entry with a period.
• List each source only once on your reference page.

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