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Referencing for Telecommunications Engineering

Information for how to reference sources using IEEE Style in business and technical writing.

How to reference books

Here are the basic formats for referencing books. The grey boxes highlight the information that needs to change in each reference. You do not include them in your own work.

Pay close attention to the punctuation and capitalisation in each of the formats and the examples below.

Print book

J. K. Author, Title of Print Book, City, State (USA only), Country: Publisher name, year.

eBook

J. K. Author, Title of Print Book, City, State (USA only), Country: Publisher name, year. [Online]. Available: https://...

Examples of book references

[1]    D. Chandramouli, R. Liebhart, and J. Pirskanen, 5G for the Connected World. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley. 2019. [Online]. Available: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/5g-for-the/9781119247081/

[2]    S. Engelberg, Digital Signal Processing: An Experimental Approach. London, England: Springer-Verlag. 2010. 

[3]    C. Lawson, R. Gill, A. Feekery, and M. Witsel, Communication Skills for Business Professionals, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. 

[4]    V. S. Frost, Introduction to Communication Systems: An Interactive Approach Using the Wolfram Language. Lawrence, KS, USA: Univ. Kansas Libraries. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/31779

[5]    Y. Zhang, Mobile Edge Computing for Beyond 5G/6G. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83944-4

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