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Referencing for Information Technology

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

How to reference articles

Here are the basic formats for referencing articles. 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.

With a DOI (digital object identifier)

J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Journal, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi: xxx.

WIthout a DOI

J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Journal, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx–xxx, Abbrev. Month, year. Accessed: Month, Day, Year. [Online]. Available: https://...

Article reference examples

[1]    J. C. S. Reis, A. Correia, F. Murai, A. Veloso, and F. Benevenuto, “Supervised learning for fake news detection,” IEEE Intell. Syst., vol 34, no. 2, pp. 76-81, Aug-Apr. 2019, doi: 10.1109/MIS.2019.2899143.

[2]    P. He and T. Tang, "Community-oriented multimedia content maximization mechanism in social Internet of Things," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 22826-22833, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2970453.

[3]    J. M. Kudari, A. C. Ojha, and A. Jebakumari, “Fake news detection using linguistic feature extraction techniques,” IUP J. Inf. Technol., vol 17, no. 3, pp. 49-60, Sep. 2021. Accessed Dec. 14, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://search-ebscohost-com.mit.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aci&AN=153131264&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

[4]    A. Ardèvol-Abreu, P. Delponti, and C. Rodríguez-Wangüemert, “Intentional or inadvertent fake news sharing? Fact-checking warnings and users' interaction with social media content,” El Profesional de la Información., vol 29, no. 5, pp. 1-13, Sep./Oct 2020. Accessed Dec. 13, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://search-ebscohost-com.mit.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aci&AN=146957564&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

[5]    K. Xu, F. Wang, H. Wang and B. Yang, "Detecting fake news over online social media via domain reputations and content understanding," Tsinghua Sci. Technol., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 20-27, Feb. 2020, doi: 10.26599/TST.2018.9010139.

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