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IEEE Referencing

Instructions and links for Referencing support

Unpublished and other sources

  • Abbreviated titles, months and words are used in IEEE. Please see Abbreviations in IEEE basics box for the list of abbreviations and further examples.

In-text citation:

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Reference list:

Format

[#] A. A. Author. (Year). Title of lecture [Type of Medium]. Available: URL.

Example

[4]  J. Smith. (2022). Introduction to programming fundamentals [PowerPoint slides]. Available: www.ilearn.mq.edu.au

In-text citation:

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Reference list:

Format:

[#] University name. (year). Title of lecture. [Type of Medium]. Available: URL

Example:

[1] Macquarie University. (2023). ENGG1050 week 6a preliminary design. [Online Lecture]. Available: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au

In-text citation:

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Reference list:

Format

[#] A. A. Author, private communication, Abbrev. Month year.

Example

[4]  J. Aston, private communication, Jul. 2021.

In-text citation:

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Reference list:

  • For preprints, provide a unique identifier where possible, e.g. arXiv ID

Format

[#]  A. A. Author, “Title of paper,” unpublished.

[#] A. A. Author, "Title of paper," year, unique identifier.

Example

[3]  B. Jones, “Writing and referencing in IEEE: a survival guide,” unpublished. 

[4] G. Srnivasagan, M. Deisher, and M. Georges, "Compression of end-to-end non-autoregressive image-to-speech system for low-resourced devices," 2023, arXiv:2312.00174.

If the example you need isn't here in our guide, have a look at these IEEE resources for further information.