• Basic format to reference a print technical report
• Basic format to reference an electronic technical report
• Referencing technical reports: Examples
• A note about company information

• IEEE Referencing
• Citing sources in the text
• Resources used in the creation of this guide
• The Reference List
• Single citation in the text
• Multiple citations in the text
• How to use quotes in IEEE
• Paraphrasing in IEEE
• Secondary sources
• Month abbreviations
• Word abbreviations in references
• Common IEEE abbreviations and acronyms
• Page numbers
• Citing the same source multiple times
• Place of publication
• DOI in IEEE

The examples for citing published company reports and/or material provided on their websites are provided in either “Technical/Company Reports” and/or “Web-based Publication” sections of this guide. If you want to cite the information pertaining to a company that you have obtained through a personal communication, you may use the ‘Personal communication’ examples provided in this guide (you do not need to include an entry in the Reference List). 

[#]   Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of Report,” Publisher, Place of Publication City, (abbrev. US State or Country if the City is not 'well known'), Report number/Type (if available), Abbrev. Month. (Day if available), Year of Publication.

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the Report, in double quotation marks. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc.
• Publisher, i.e. the abbreviated name of company or institution that published the report
• Place of publication. Refer to Place of publication for information on the correct format of locations
• Report number and volume and/or issue number
• Abbreviated Month and Year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information.

[1]    D. Smith, “17th Construction Squadron Relocation Infrastructure Project,” Canberra Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Canberra, ACT, Rep. no. 5, June 2015.

[#]   Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of Report,” Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, Rep. no., vol./issue, Abbrev. Month, Year, pp. xxx–xxx. Accessed on: Month, Day, Year. [Online]. Available site/path/file 

Referencing elements to cite:

• [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
• Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
• Title of the Report, in double quotation marks. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc.
• Publisher, i.e. the abbreviated name of company or institution that published the report
• Place of publication. Refer to Place of publication for information on the correct format of locations
• Report number and volume and/or issue number
• Abbreviated Month and Year of publication. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information
• Page number(s), cited as p. for a single page or pp. for multiple pages
• Accessed on: Month, Day, Year. Refer to the Abbreviated month section for further information
• [Online]
• Available: site/path/file location, which can be a DOI, a library database provider or a full URL

[2]    G. Glass, "Electrical Safety Program: Nonelectrical Crafts at LANL, Live #12175," Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, LA-UR--16-29637, 2016. Accessed on Feb. 1, 2017. [Online]. Available: doi:10.2172/1338684

[3]    T. A. Litman, "Autonomous Vehicle Implementation Predictions: Implications for Transport Planning," Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Apr. 24, 2018. Accessed on: Apr. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: Available: https://www.vtpi.org/avip.pdf