ME 462 Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering

Which citation style are we using in this class?

IEEE 

What's the difference between these style and others?

Most publishers have their own style guide that they require authors to use. No style is better than any other style even though they often handle citations and document formatting a little bit differently. Your instructor has chosen to use this style because it suits the type of document you are writing.

References cited in the text appear on the line, in square brackets, inside the punctuation. Grammatically, they may be treated as if they were footnote numbers or as nouns. NOTE: Use et al. when three or more names are given for a reference cited in the text. 

Examples:

as shown by Brown [4], [5]; as mentioned earlier [2], [4]–[7], [9]; Smith [4] and Brown and Jones [5]; Wood et al. [7]

as demonstrated in [3]; according to [4] and [6]–[9].

Book:

[#] F. M. Last,“Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, (only U.S. State), Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx. 

Examples:

[1] B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1986.

[2] L. Stein, “Random patterns,” in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55–70. 

Journal Article:

[#] F. M. Last, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi: xxx.

Example:

[3] M. M. Chiampi and L. L. Zilberti, “Induction of electric field in human bodies moving near MRI: An efficient BEM computational procedure,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 58, pp. 2787–2793, Oct. 2011, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2158315. 

Conference Proceedings:

[#] F. M. Last. (Date). Title. Presented at Abbreviated Conf. title. [Type of Medium]. Available: site/path/file

Example:

[4] V. Chandrasekaran, S. Sanghavi, P. A. Parrilo, and A. S. Willsky. (2009). Sparse and low-rank matrix decompositions. Presented at IFAC 2009. [Online]. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ article/pii/S1474667016388632

Report:

[#] F. M. Last, “Title of report,” Company, City, State, Country, Rep. no., (optional: vol./issue), Date. Accessed: Date. [Online]. Available: site/path/file 

Example: 

[5] E. W. Miner and C. H. Lewis, “Hypersonic ionizing air viscous shock-layer flows over nonanalytic blunt bodies,” NASA, Blacksburg, VA, NASA CR-2550, May 1975. Accessed: Sep. 10, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750014556.pdf

Fig. 1. Semi truck with roof fairing [1].

[1] raymondclarkeimages, Sisbro. 2012. [Online]. Available: https://flic.kr/p/d4NJw7.

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