Free IEEE Citation Generator
For Engineering & CS

How to Use This Citation Generator

Step 1: Select your citation style

Click Citation style on the search bar and choose your format: APA 7th edition, Harvard, MLA 9th, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver, OSCOLA, or any of the 19 supported styles. Switch at any time and your entire bibliography reformats instantly.

Step 2: Choose your source type

Select a source type from the tabs: Journal article, Book, Webpage, Report, or Thesis. This filters results to match your source, the same way Scribbr, Citation Machine, and MyBib work.

Step 3: Search for your source

Type a title, author, paste a URL, DOI, or ISBN and click Cite. The generator returns matching results. Click Cite this next to the correct one.

Step 4: Build your bibliography

Each citation is added to your reference list below the search bar. The in-text citation appears in a chip. Click it to copy. When done, copy the full bibliography or export to Word, LaTeX (.bib), or clipboard.

IEEE Citation Rules

IEEE style is the numbered citation system used in electrical engineering, computer science, and most engineering programs at US universities, and in IEEE journals and conference proceedings. Select IEEE in the style dropdown above. The rules that trip students up:

• Bracket citations: sources are cited by number in square brackets [1], placed inside the punctuation, in order of first appearance. Reuse the same number every time you cite that source.
• Numbered reference list: references are listed in citation order, not alphabetically, each starting with its bracketed number.
• Author names: first initials before surnames: J. Smith and R. Patel. For seven or more authors, use the first author followed by et al.
• Titles: article and paper titles in quotation marks with sentence case; journal and book titles italicized and abbreviated per IEEE conventions (IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng.).
• Details: include volume, issue, page range, month, and year for journal articles.

IEEE citation examples generated by this tool:

Journal article: [1] J. Smith and R. Patel, "Energy-efficient scheduling for edge computing," IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput., vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1420 to 1433, Jul. 2023.

Conference paper: [2] L. Chen, "Adversarial robustness in vision transformers," in Proc. IEEE CVPR, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023, pp. 8801 to 8810.

Website: [3] NIST, "Post-quantum cryptography standards," 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.nist.gov/pqc

More citation styles: APA citation generator, MLA citation generator, Chicago citation generator or the full citation generator with all 19 styles.

Cite a Webpage, Book, Journal Article and More

This citation generator handles every source type, and the Cite Manually option adds newspapers, videos, and book chapters. Select the right type to get the most accurate citation:

📄 Journal Article / Science Direct

Paste the DOI or full article title. For articles found on Science Direct, PubMed, JSTOR, or Google Scholar, paste the DOI (e.g., 10.1016/j.xyz...) for the most accurate result. The generator returns exact author names, journal, volume, issue, and page range.

📕 Book / ISBN

Paste the ISBN (found on the back cover) for any book citation. Works for textbooks, edited volumes, and e-books. The generator retrieves publisher, place of publication, and edition automatically.

🌐 Webpage / Website

Paste the full URL to cite a website: news article, government site, institutional report, or blog post. The generator extracts the site name, page title, publication date, and access date for the citation.

📊 Report

For government reports, WHO publications, World Bank data, OECD reports, and organizational grey literature. Cite by title or paste the report URL.

🎓 Thesis / Dissertation

For citing published theses from ProQuest, institutional repositories, or university databases. Enter the thesis title and institution for a correctly formatted citation.

{} BibTeX / LaTeX Export

Need a LaTeX bibliography? Use the Export menu (···) and select Export to LaTeX to download a .bib file with all your references. Compatible with Overleaf, TexStudio, and all major LaTeX editors. The latex quote or quotation format for your bibliography is generated automatically per source type.

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