IEEE Citation Generator
IEEE references with numbered brackets, formatted for engineering and CS papers, with BibTeX export.
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Output
IEEE Citation
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What is IEEE?
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) style is the required citation format for nearly all engineering, computer science, and electronics publications, including IEEE journals, conferences, and most arXiv submissions in CS. IEEE uses numbered references in square brackets like [1], [2], [3] in-text, and lists the corresponding numbered entries at the end.
Who uses IEEE?
Required for: IEEE Transactions journals, ICASSP, INFOCOM, ICRA, and most engineering conferences. Also commonly required in CS journals including ACM publications (which use a near-identical variant) and some interdisciplinary venues. If you submit to NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, or similar, check the template, but IEEE-style or a close cousin is common.
For instructors & researchers
Engineering and CS faculty: students consistently mis-order author initials and italicize the wrong field. This generator handles the IEEE-specific quirks, author initials before surname, abbreviated journal titles, italicized journal name only, automatically. For your own submissions, pair the BibTeX output with the IEEEtran document class for instant compliance with IEEE templates.
IEEE examples by source type
Journal article
Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio, and G. Hinton, "Deep learning," *Nature*, vol. 521, no. 7553, pp. 436-444, May 2015.
Conference paper
K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, and J. Sun, "Deep residual learning for image recognition," in *Proc. IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit.*, 2016, pp. 770-778.
Book
S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe, *Convex Optimization*. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
arXiv preprint
A. Vaswani et al., "Attention is all you need," *arXiv*, 2017. [Online]. Available: arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762.
Website
PyTorch Foundation, "PyTorch documentation," pytorch.org. Accessed: Aug. 2, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://pytorch.org/docs
Technical report / standard
IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic, IEEE Std 754-2019, 2019.
IEEE citation questions
What is IEEE citation format?
IEEE format uses numbered in-text citations in square brackets — [1], [2] — in order of first appearance, with a numbered reference list at the end. Each entry gives author initials before surnames, the title in quotation marks, the venue in italics, then volume, issue, pages, and date. It is maintained in the IEEE Editorial Style Manual.
How do in-text citations work in IEEE?
Cite by bracketed number at the point of reference: 'as shown in [3]' or 'prior work [1], [4]-[6] suggests...'. Numbers are assigned in order of first mention and reused for every later mention of the same source — never renumbered. In LaTeX, \cite{} with the IEEEtran style handles the numbering and ranges automatically.
How do I cite a website in IEEE?
Author or organization, page title in quotes, the site name, the accessed date, then '[Online]. Available:' with the URL. Example: PyTorch Foundation, 'PyTorch documentation,' pytorch.org. Accessed: Aug. 2, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://pytorch.org/docs.
Should journal titles be abbreviated in IEEE?
Yes. IEEE uses standard journal title abbreviations (e.g., 'IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.'). Most journals publish their abbreviated form on their masthead.
How do I cite arXiv papers in IEEE?
Use the standard format: authors, paper title in quotes, '*arXiv*,' year, and the arXiv URL marked '[Online]. Available:'. This generator handles arXiv preprints automatically.
What's the LaTeX setup for IEEE references?
Use \documentclass{IEEEtran}, \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}, and add the BibTeX output from this generator to your .bib file. Compile with bibtex or biber as your IEEE template specifies.
Does IEEE use 'et al.' for many authors?
IEEE lists up to six authors; for seven or more, list the first author followed by 'et al.' This generator follows that rule when needed.
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