IEEE references and in-text citations from a DOI, ISBN, URL or title, with the rules explained. Export the list to Word.
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Paste a DOI, ISBN, PubMed or arXiv ID, a web address, or just a title. Your list is saved in this browser, so you can close the tab and come back to it.
Formatted by citeproc-js © Frank Bennett, unmodified, under the CPAL — citeproc-js implements the Citation Style Language. Styles from the CSL project, CC BY-SA 3.0 (our copies).
Paste a DOI, an ISBN, a link or a title and the tool finds the publisher's own record for it and formats it in IEEE — the numbered system used in electrical and electronic engineering, computer science and computing conferences. The references entry and the in-text citation come together, and the rules are those of the IEEE Reference Guide (IEEE Publications, 2023 version), published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The reference guide is revised every few years; the current version dates from late 2023.
IEEE journal abbreviations follow IEEE's own list rather than a general one, and a conference paper is cited with in Proc. and the conference's short name.
Three steps, about twenty seconds a source.
A DOI, an ISBN, a PubMed or arXiv ID, a web address, or a title. IEEE is already selected on this page. The tool works out what you pasted and asks the right catalogue — Crossref, OpenLibrary, PubMed, DataCite or Semantic Scholar — for the record.
Each source gets a card showing what the catalogue held and what the tool changed to fit IEEE: a title converted to sentence case, a DOI reduced to its bare form, a page range tidied. Every change can be undone with one click if the record was right as it was.
Copy the list with its formatting into Word or Google Docs, or download a .docx with the numbering and spacing already set. BibTeX, RIS and CSL-JSON exports carry the same data into Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or LaTeX.
The rules the tool applies, from the IEEE Reference Guide (IEEE Publications, 2023 version).
Six real sources — two journal articles, a book, a chapter, a web page and a conference paper — formatted by the same engine that runs the generator above. Nothing here was typed by hand, so what you see is what you get.
[1] S. A. Golder and M. W. Macy, “Diurnal and seasonal mood vary with work, sleep, and daylength across diverse cultures,” Science, vol. 333, no. 6051, pp. 1878–1881, Sep. 2011, doi: 10.1126/science.1202775.
In text, citing page 1880: [1, p. 1880]
[2] D. Kahneman, J. L. Knetsch, and R. H. Thaler, “Anomalies: The endowment effect, loss aversion, and status quo bias,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 193–206, 1991, doi: 10.1257/jep.5.1.193.
In text: [2]
[3] T. S. Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions, 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
In text, citing page 12: [3, p. 12]
[4] H. P. Grice, “Logic and conversation,” in Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3: Speech Acts, P. Cole and J. L. Morgan, Eds., New York: Academic Press, 1975, pp. 41–58.
In text, citing page 45: [4, p. 45]
[5] AI Writing Assistant, “Free AI writing tools: What each does and when to use it,” AI Writing Assistant. Accessed: Sep. 18, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html
In text: [5]
[6] A. Vaswani et al., “Attention is all you need,” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30, Curran Associates, 2017, pp. 5998–6008.
In text: [6]
The publishers' records hold 6 of these titles in title case; the tool converted them to sentence case, as IEEE requires, and reported each change on its card, where one click keeps the original instead.
Five errors markers see most often, and what the tool does about each.
IEEE numbers sources in the order they are first cited, and the list follows that order. The tool numbers the list from your citation order, so add sources in the order you cite them.
IEEE puts initials before the surname, S. A. Golder, in every position, and joins two authors with and.
IEEE wants sentence case inside the quotation marks. The tool converts and reports it.
IEEE writes doi: 10.1126/science.1202775, without https://doi.org/. Other styles do the opposite.
A source is numbered once and reused. Giving it a new number the second time it is cited breaks the list.
If your handbook names one of these instead, its page opens the generator with that style selected.
ACM also uses bracketed numbers but sorts its list alphabetically and then numbers it, gives full first names, and writes the DOI as a link. Open the ACM page.
Vancouver is the numbered style of medicine: also citation order, but surnames first with initials closed up and no quotation marks. Open the Vancouver page.
Yes. Every style, every source type and every export is free, with no account and no daily allowance, because the formatting runs in your browser rather than on our servers. Your list is saved in this browser and never sent to us.
The IEEE Reference Guide as revised in 2023, which is what IEEE Transactions and IEEE conferences apply. Individual conferences sometimes issue a template with small differences; the template wins.
A number in square brackets, in the order sources are first cited: [1], [2]. The tool prints the in-text form under each reference; turn on the in-text switch above the list if it is hidden.
Paste the address and the tool reads the page's title, author, site name and date where the page declares them, then formats it. The IEEE form of a web page with an organisation as author and no date is: [5] AI Writing Assistant, “Free AI writing tools: What each does and when to use it,” AI Writing Assistant. Accessed: Sep. 18, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.aiwritingassistant.net/tools.html Check the author and date on the card — pages often leave them out, and the style has a rule for each case.
Yes. Your sources are stored as data, not as formatted text, so choosing another style in the picker re-formats the whole list at once — APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, or any of the 10,000 Citation Style Language styles the picker searches.
From the IEEE Reference Guide (IEEE Publications, 2023 version), published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, as encoded in the open Citation Style Language style the tool uses. IEEE journal abbreviations follow IEEE's own list rather than a general one, and a conference paper is cited with in Proc. and the conference's short name. Where your department's own guide differs on a detail, the department's guide is the one your marker reads.
Check the essay's grammar, tighten the wording, or summarise a source before you cite it. One plan covers every tool.
Each page opens the generator with that style already selected, shows what the tool prints for six real sources, and explains the style's rules. The picker above the list reaches more than 10,000 styles in all.
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