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IEEE Style: In-text citation

Authors and dates do not have to be mentioned in-text, unless they add relevance to your narrative. In-text citations include numbers in square brackets that coordinate with the full citation listed in the reference list.

Examples 

Single author: ...as shown by Brown [4], [5].

Multiple references : ...as mentioned earlier [2], [4], [5], [6], [7], [9].

Multiple-authored references, use et al. with three or more authors: ...Smith [4] and Brown and Jones [5]; Wood et al. [7].

You may treat the citations as nouns: ...as demonstrated in [3]; according to [4] and [6].