From the "Information for Authors" of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

References should be numbered sequentially by order of mention in the text, with the number placed in brackets and printed on the same line (not as a superscript) like [1].  The list of all references cited in the text should appear in numeric order at the end of the paper.  Don't use footnotes.

Samples of IEEE Reference Style

Books

[1] E. R. Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1996.

[2] J. H. Watt and S. A. van den Berg, Research Methods for Communication Science. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Articles/Chapters in a Book

[3] J. W. DuBois, S. Schuetze-Coburn, S. Cumming, and D. Paolino, "Outline of discourse transcription," in Talking Data: Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research (J. A. Edwards and M. D. Lampert, Eds.). Hillsdale, NJ:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993, pp. 45-89.

Periodicals

[4] R. C. Carter, "Search time with a color display: Analysis of distribution functions," Human Factors, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 302-304, 1982.

Papers Presented in Proceedings

[5] P. Leone, D. L. Gillihan, and T. L. Rauch, "Web-based prototyping for user sessions: Medium-fidelity prototyping," in Proc. 44th Int. Technical Communications Conf. (Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1997), pp. 231-234.

Unpublished Papers

[6] K. Riley, "Language theory: Application versus practice," presented at the Conf. of the Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, December 27-30, 1990.

Technical Reports

[7] K. Kraiger and M.S. Teachout, "Application of generalizability theory to the Air Force job performance measurement project: A summary of research results," Human Resources Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, Tech. Rep. AFHRL-TR-90-92, July 1991.
 

Electronic Publications

The IEEE Magazines Department's Information for Magazine Authors (1999, p. 4) includes suggestions for citing electronic publications.  This includes the electronic versions of printed as well as internet publications.

^* The IEEE uses LaTeX for electronic versions of papers.   Their Web page includes LaTeX style and sample files that may be downloaded and used to comp

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