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IEEE Citation Generator

This free IEEE citation generator follows the IEEE Reference Guide used by IEEE journals, conferences and most engineering and computer science courses. Paste a DOI, arXiv ID, web address, ISBN or title, check the details, and copy a numbered reference with its bracketed in-text citation, or build the whole reference list.

Or fill in the fields below by hand. Check every citation against the source before you submit.

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Look up a source or type a title and an author to see the citation.

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What Is an IEEE Citation Generator?

Numbered References

IEEE is a numeric style. Sources are numbered in the order you first cite them, and the list at the end follows those numbers rather than the alphabet. An IEEE citation generator handles the numbering when you add sources to the list.

Initials First, Titles in Quotes

An IEEE reference puts initials before surnames, such as Y. LeCun, sets article titles in quotation marks and italicises the journal or book, then gives volume, issue, pages, date and DOI.

Papers, Proceedings and Preprints

Journal articles, conference papers, arXiv preprints, books, standards and web pages each have their own IEEE pattern. Pick the source type and the IEEE citation generator asks for exactly those fields.

Why Use Our IEEE Citation Generator?

Lookups From DOI and arXiv

Most engineering sources have a DOI or an arXiv ID. Our IEEE citation generator reads the record from Crossref or DataCite, so author initials, volume, issue and pages come out right the first time.

The Whole List in Order

Add sources in the order you cite them and copy the numbered list straight into Word or Google Docs, or keep the numbers in sync by moving entries yourself.

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BibTeX for IEEEtran

Most IEEE papers are written in LaTeX with IEEEtran.bst. Get a BibTeX entry for any DOI and let BibTeX number and format the references.

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How to Use It in 3 Steps

Step 1: Paste the DOI or arXiv ID

Paste a DOI, arXiv ID, URL, ISBN or title into the IEEE citation generator and press Cite, or fill in a conference paper or standard by hand.

Step 2: Check Names and Pages

Make sure every author appears with initials, the page range is complete and conference names are written out; IEEE abbreviates journal titles, so shorten them if your venue asks.

Step 3: Number and Copy

Add each source in citation order, then copy the numbered list into your paper and put the matching [n] in the text.

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IEEE Citation Generator FAQ

What is IEEE citation?
The referencing style of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, used in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and IT. Sources are cited by numbers in square brackets, [1], and listed in that order at the end of the paper.
How to do IEEE citation?
Number each source when you first cite it, put the number in square brackets in the text, and list the full references by number at the end. Paste each source into the IEEE citation generator and add it to the list in citation order.
Are IEEE citations in alphabetical order?
No. IEEE lists references in the order they are first cited, so [1] is the first source you mention, not the first author alphabetically. Reuse the same number every time you cite that source again.
How to do IEEE in text citation?
Put the reference number in square brackets inside the sentence, before the full stop or comma: as shown in [3]. Cite several sources as [2], [5] or a range as [2]–[5]. The number can also act as a noun: see [4] for details.
How to add IEEE citation in Word?
Word’s References tab includes an IEEE 2006 style under Style, where you can add sources and insert numbered citations. Google Docs has no IEEE option, so copy the references from the IEEE citation generator and type the [n] numbers yourself.
Is IEEE citation same as APA?
No. APA is an author-date style, (LeCun et al., 2015), with an alphabetical reference list. IEEE uses numbers, [1], lists references in citation order and writes author initials before surnames.
How to get IEEE citation from Google Scholar?
Google Scholar’s Cite button offers MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard and Vancouver but not IEEE. Copy the DOI or title into the IEEE citation generator instead, or export BibTeX from Scholar for IEEEtran. IEEE Xplore’s Cite This button also gives IEEE text.
What does IEEE citation look like?
A journal article: [1] Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio, and G. Hinton, “Deep learning,” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7553, pp. 436–444, May 2015, doi: 10.1038/nature14539. The journal name is in italics.
How to use IEEE citation in LaTeX?
Use the IEEEtran class with \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} and \bibliography{refs}, then cite with \cite{key}; BibTeX numbers the list for you. With biblatex, load it with style=ieee. Our DOI to BibTeX tool fills refs.bib.
How to do IEEE citation for pictures?
Credit the source in the figure caption with its reference number, for example Fig. 2. Network layout, adapted from [7]. The full source then appears in the reference list like any other.
How to do IEEE citation for website?
[n] Author or Organization, “Page title,” Website name. Accessed: Mon. DD, YYYY. [Online]. Available: URL. Give the full URL, and include the access date because pages change. Paste the link into the IEEE citation generator to build it.
How to format author name in IEEE citation?
Give initials before the surname, Y. LeCun, and separate names with commas, putting and before the last. List up to six authors; with more than six, give the first author followed by et al.
Can I make an IEEE citation from a PDF?
Not by uploading it, but almost every paper PDF prints a DOI or arXiv ID on its first page. Paste that into the IEEE citation generator and the reference is filled from the publisher record.
How do I cite an IEEE conference paper?
[n] A. Author, “Title of paper,” in Proc. Name of Conference, City, Country, Year, pp. xx–xx, doi: xxx. Choose Conference paper as the source type, or paste the DOI and the proceedings name is filled in.
How do I cite an arXiv preprint in IEEE style?
Give the authors, title in quotation marks, arXiv, the identifier and the year, then the link or DOI. Paste an arXiv ID such as 1706.03762 and the IEEE citation generator reads it from arXiv’s DataCite record.
Can I create an IEEE citation from a DOI?
Yes. Paste the DOI or a doi.org link and press Cite. The details come from Crossref or DataCite, and the DOI is printed at the end of the reference as IEEE recommends.

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