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Engineering: IEEE references

IEEE reference guide

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers reference style, the IEEE style, is widely used within the field of technology such as computer science and electrical engineering. According to IEEE, citations are numbered in square brackets and the list of references at the end of an article or an assignment is arranged in the same numerical order as the citation numbers. 

The IEEE reference style is used in Engineering and Computer science at RU.

The IEEE style and the Zotero reference tool are very compatible.

Example

Here is an example of how the reference list and citations look like according to IEEE reference style:

Example of IEEE citations and references