Describe why students need this
IEEE or the Institute for electrical and electronics engineers is an organisation that supports branches of engineering, information technology and computer science, which has its own citation style for the academic works that the students deliver in this field. It includes in text citations that are numbered in square brackets along with the full citations listed at the end of the paper mentioned by the name of reference list. Students belonging to engineering and science background shall find it useful to reference their work, when acknowledging the sources from where they have taken Information for their research work.
What are the difficulties faced by students while citing a source in IEEE?
The fact that IEEE citation style is quite different from the other referencing styles like Harvard referencing style, the American Psychological Association or the APA referencing style, the Chicago style of reference, et cetera is a little intimidating and often confusing for the students. This style of referencing is quite technical and methodological, which is strictly observed due to its uniqueness and lesson usage in comparison to the other referencing styles. Creating a numbered list of references at the end of the paper matching with the exact numbers that were used as in text citation could consume more time than expected for acknowledging the sources of reference. Thus it is quite reasonable for the students to find IEEE citation style a little difficult to deliver properly.
Citing web pages with no author or date
When there is a publication that has been published by an organisation, Corporation or an Association and there is neither a particular author’s name attached to it nor there is a specific date of publication, then the researcher must consider the name of the organisation or institution as the name of the author and skipping The date of publication altogether. However as per the regular practise, the date on which the website was accessed must be provided.
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Citing an entire paper
The most basic way to cite an entire paper is to put the reference number in a square bracket first followed by the authors initials, authors surname, title of the article within double inverted comma, full or abbreviated title of the paper in italics, name Of the Journal where it is published, And Lastly with volume number, issue number, page numbers and the abbreviated month and year of publication. This is the IEEE referencing style for a regular Journal article paper, different from a book, report, thesis or conference papers. To put it in example
[3] K. A. Gibson, R. J. Robinson, D. R. Lucas, and W. Simpson, “Optical generation of ultrasonic waves,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 50, no. 5, p.1356-1456, Feb 2018.
[4] B. Mandela, “Statistics show how slowly the Internet runs today,” InfoWorld, p. 34, 30 Nov 2012.
Citing paper with an author
Put the reference number in a square bracket first followed by the author’s initials, authors surname, title of the article within double inverted comma, full or abbreviated title of the paper in italics, name Of the Journal where it is published, And Lastly with volume number, issue number, page numbers and the abbreviated month and year of publication.
