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IEEE Style: References: Books

General Format

  • The reference list is organized numerically by the order items appear in your paper, not alphabetically.
  • Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.

Books

[#]     Author, Title, volume, edition. City, State, Country: Publisher, year.

[1]   B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1986.

[2]   C.M. Millward, A Biography of the English Language, 2nd ed. Fort Worth, TX, USA: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

 

With Editors

Use this example if the editors of a work are also the authors of all of the included chapters.

[3]   W. R. Leonard and M. H. Crawford, Eds. Human Biology of Pastoral Populations. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.


Book Chapters

Use this example if the chapters or parts have an individual title and author(s), but are included in collections or textbooks edited by others.

Note that for the chapter, only the first letter of the first word is capitalized.

[#]    A. B. Last name, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of the Published Book, A. B. Last name, Ed., xth ed. City of Publisher, (only U.S. State), Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.

[4]   L. Stein, “Random patterns,” in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed., New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55–70.

[5]   G. O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics,” in Plastics, vol. 3, Polymers of Hexadromicon, J. Peters, Ed., 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15–64. [Online]. Available: https://www.scirp.org


Multi-volume

[5]   R. L. Myer, “Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials,” in Nonlinear Optics, vol. 4, P. G. Harper and B. S. Wherret, Eds. San Francisco, CA, USA: Academic, 1977, pp. 47–160.

 

Translated

[6]   M. Gorkii, “Optimal design,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, vol. 12, pp. 111-122, 1961 (Transl.: in L. Pontryagin, Ed., The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes. New York, NY, USA: Interscience, 1962, ch. 2, sec. 3, pp. 127–135).


E-Books

Include an Accessed: date at the end if you cannot find a stable link. 

[#]     Author, Title, volume, edition. City, State, Country: Publisher, year. [Online]. Available: URL. Accessed: Month day, year.

[7]   P. H. Ditchfield, Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time. London, UK: George Redway, 1896. [Online]. Available: https://books.google.com/books?id=azpHAAAAIAAJ. Accessed: July 1, 2019.