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• Book;
• Chapter in an edited book;
• Journal article;
• Newspaper article;
• Website/webpage;
• Video (online);
• Social media post;
• Dissertation/thesis;
• Conference paper;
• Law/act;
• Court case;
• Report;
• Preprint;
• Patent;
• Standard;
• Archival document.

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Examples of bibliographic references in IEEE Style

Book

R. R. Murphy, Introduction to AI Robotics, 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2019.

C. Artini, Ed., Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds: From Modeling to Engineering. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2017.

Chapter in an edited book

B. R. Johnson and Y. Ko, “The APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Hub: A platform for collaborative knowledge production and action,” in The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim, Y. Yang and A. Taufen, Eds. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2022, pp. 14–21.

Article in a periodical

Journal article

G. Iazeolla, “Power management of base transceiver stations for mobile networks,” Netw. Communication Technol., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 12–26, May 2022, doi: 10.5539/nct.v7n1p12. Accessed: Feb. 23, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/nct/article/view/0/47281

Newspaper article

S. Lister, “Ideology to sort out energy, next PM told,” Daily Express, p. 5, Sep. 5, 2022.

Website/webpage

A. Cassidy. “The apps getting your wardrobe back under control.” BBC News. Accessed Feb. 23, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64567793

Video (online)

TheColumbusDispatch. Digging for Hope: Inside an Ohio Coal Mine. (Mar. 29, 2017). Accessed: Feb. 23, 2023. [Online Video]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lBXpQxdSM

Social media post

R. Sunak, “Stand together. Stand united. #StandWithUkraine.” Twitter. Accessed: Feb. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1629039016418103297

Dissertation/thesis

M. M. Agawani, “A mechanistic tool to design a steerable rotary bottomhole assembly for drilling highly deviated and extended reach wells,” Ph.D. thesis, Univ. New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1996. Accessed: Feb. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/56327

Conference materials

Conference paper

S. Chatterton, P. Pennacchi, P. V. Dang, and A. Vania, “A test rig for evaluating tilting-pad journal bearing characteristics,” in Proc. 9th IFToMM Int. Conf. Rotor Dyn., P. Pennacchi, Ed. Milan, Italy, Sep. 22–25, 2014. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015, pp. 921–930, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06590-8. Accessed: Feb. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-06590-8

Law/act

Great Britain, Parliament. (2022, Jul. 14). Energy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy Act 2022. Accessed: Feb. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/40/contents

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Court case

High Court of Brunei Darussalam, Jan. 30, 2019, Civil Suit No. 83 of 2017 (Brunei Darussalam). Accessed: Dec. 11, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.judiciary.gov.bn/Judiciary_Judgments/HCCS-83of2017.pdf

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Report

S. J. Bosworth and D. J. Snower, “Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare,” IZA – Inst. Labor Econ., Bonn, IZA DP No. 14042, Jan. 2021. Accessed: Jan. 19, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14042/technological-advance-social-fragmentation-and-welfare

Preprint

P. Scheffe, J. Kahle, and B. Alrifaee, Reducing Computation Time with Priority Assignment in Distributed MPC. To be published. Accessed: Feb. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.techrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Reducing_Computation_Time_with_Priority_Assignment_in_Distributed_MPC/20304015

Patent

Method of producing fine fiber, and fine fiber, non-woven fabric, and fine fibrous cellulose, by Y. Chao and Y. Noishiki. (Jan. 1, 2019). U.S. Patent US 10,167,576 B2. Accessed: Feb. 24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10167576B2

Standard

Food Safety Management Systems — Requirements for Any Organization in the Food Chain, BS EN ISO 22000:2005, Brit. Standards Institution, London, U.K., 2005.

Archival document

J. G. Duff, “New Brunswick Pharmaceutical Society license,” 1926, Dalhousie Univ. Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, J. Gordon Duff fonds, MS-13-82, Box 19, Folder 26.