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IEEE Referencing Guide: Personal Communication - Unpublished Material

IEEE Referencing Guide

Personal Communication - Unpublished Material

Personal Communication - Unpublished Material

Personal Communication - Unpublished Material

Basic format to reference a paper still in preparation

[#]  Author(s) Initial(s). Surname, “Title of paper,” unpublished (If applicable)  Abbrev. Month. Year (If applicable). Available: site/path/file (if applicable).

Referencing elements to cite:

  • [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
  • Author(s) name
  • Title of paper, in double quotation marks
  • unpublished (if applicable, for completely unpublished papers. If a paper has been published on, for example, the arXiv.org repository of electronic preprints, then you may omit to provide the word 'unpublished'
  • Abbreviated month day and year. (If applicable)
  • available: site/path/file (if applicable)

 

In-text example of a paper in progress

 

In an unpublished paper: "Artificial intelligence for image processing,” the author Hao Shi draws a distinction between ..

 

Full Reference for the Reference List

 

[5]   H. Shi, “Artificial intelligence for image processing,” unpublished. 

 

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