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IEEE Citation Generator

Fill in what you know about the source and get the IEEE entry plus its matching in-text form. Blank fields are simply left out rather than leaving stray punctuation behind.

Authors

No personal author? Leave these blank and use the organisation field below.

Reference entry

[1] S. Baniya and S. Weech, "Data and experience design: Negotiating community-oriented digital research with service-learning," Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 11–16, 2019, doi: 10.5703/1288284316979.

In-text

[1]

Formatted as IEEE. Italics are shown as italics here and stripped when you copy, so the text pastes cleanly into a word processor where you can re-apply them.

A worked example

A two-author journal article with a DOI, formatted as IEEE. This is generated by the same code the tool above uses, so it is never out of step with the generator.

Reference

[1] S. Baniya and S. Weech, "Data and experience design: Negotiating community-oriented digital research with service-learning," Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 11–16, 2019, doi: 10.5703/1288284316979.

In-text

[1]

The same style applied to a single-author book, where the fields available are quite different — no volume, no issue, no DOI, but a publisher instead:

[1] J. Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.

In-text: [1]

Where these rules come from

Citation formats are only useful if they match what the style body actually publishes, so each rule here is transcribed from a cited source rather than written from memory:

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are IEEE references numbered instead of alphabetised?

IEEE numbers references in order of first citation in the text, so reference [1] is simply the first work you cited. The in-text citation is that bracketed number, which keeps the running text short in papers that cite heavily.

Why do the initials come before the surname?

IEEE writes names in natural reading order with initials first — K. M. Bivens rather than Bivens, K. M. — because the list is ordered by citation number, not alphabetically by surname, so nothing is gained by inverting.

How many authors before IEEE uses “et al.”?

Up to six authors are listed in full. At seven or more, IEEE gives the first author followed by et al. Months are abbreviated to three or four letters, with May, June and July left whole.

Where do these formatting rules come from?

Every rule on this page is transcribed from the published IEEE guidance listed in the sources box below, and the site's test suite reproduces those sources' own worked examples exactly. If a change ever stopped matching a real published citation, the tests would fail.

Should I check the output before submitting it?

Yes. A generator handles the common shapes of a source well, but real bibliographies contain awkward cases — a chapter in a translated edition, a report with a corporate author and a series number, a source with no date. Treat the output as a well-formed draft and check anything unusual against your style manual or your institution's guidance.

Other citation styles

Switching styles changes more than punctuation — name order, date position and title capitalisation all move, so the same source looks quite different in each.