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Engineering Citation Resources

Basic Formatting Information

Authors' Names

Authors' names are listed in the following order:

  1. given/personal names, abbreviated to the first initial of each name
  2. family/surnames

For example:

  • Reshmina William becomes R. William
  • A. Bryan Endres becomes A. B. Endres
  • Ashlynn S. Stillwell becomes A. S. Stillwell

Multiple Authors:

For publications with 1-6 authors, list all authors' names. For publications with 7 or more authors, list only the first author's name followed by et al.

Conference Proceedings Titles:

When citing conference proceedings, the conference name should be abbreviated using the standard abbreviations listed in the table starting on Page 6 of the IEEE Reference Guide (linked below). If a word in the conference name is not listed in the table, leave it written out in full. For example:

  • 2021 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technology becomes 2021 Int. Conf. on Electrical and Information Technology
  • 2018 9th International Renewable Energy Congress becomes 2018 9th Int. Renewable Energy Congr.

Journal Titles:

When citing journal articles, the journal title should be abbreviated using the standard abbreviations listed in the table beginning on Page 22 of the IEEE Reference Guide (linked below). If a word in the journal title is not listed in the table, leave it written out in full. For example:

  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement becomes IEEE Trans. on Instrum. and Meas.
  • Journal of Energy Resources Technology becomes J. of Energy Resour. Technol.

URLs and DOIs:

DOIs are always followed by periods. URLs are not followed by periods, even when they are the last element of a citation.

Examples

General Format:

A. B. Author, “Title of article in sentence case,” Abbreviated Title of Journal in Title Case, vol. #, no. #, pp. #-#, Abbreviated publication month. year, doi: ##########.

Specific Example:

Q. M. B. Soesanto, T. Yoshinaga, and A. Iida, “Anisotropic double-Gaussian analytical wake model for an isolated horizontal-axis wind turbine,” Energy Sci. & Eng., vol.10, no. 7, pp. 2123-2145, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1002/ese3.1120.

General Format:

A. B. Author, “Title of paper in sentence case,” in Abbreviated Name of Conference, year, pp. #-#, doi: ##########.

Specific Example:

H.S. Bronzeado, P.A.C. Rosas, E.A.N. Feitosa, and M.S. Miranda, “Behavior of wind turbines under Brazilian wind conditions and their interaction with the grid,” in 8th Int. Conf. Harmonics and Quality Power, 1998, pp. 906-910, doi: 10.1109/ICHQP.1998.760163.

General Format:

A. B. Author, “Page or article title in sentence case,” Website Title in Title Case, Publication date in format Abbreviated Month. Day, Year OR Accessed: Abbreviated Month. Day, Year. [Online]. Available: URL

Specific Example:

Wind Energy Technologies Office, “How do wind turbines work?" Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Accessed: Sep. 29, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/how-do-wind-turbines-work

General Format:

A. B. Author, Title of Book in Title Case. City of Publisher, U.S. State Postal Abbreviation, Country: Publisher's abbreviated name*, year. [Online]. Available: URL

Specific Example:

P. Jamieson, Innovation in Wind Turbine Design. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119137924

*abbreviate Publishers' names using the standard abbreviations in the chart beginning on page 27 of the IEEE Reference Guide (linked above)

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