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Personal Communication - Unpublished Material

Basic format to reference a paper still in preparation

# Author(s) Surname initial/s, Title of paper, unpublished (if applicable), Year Month (if applicable), available: site/path/file (if applicable).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.
unpublished (if applicable, for completely unpublished papers.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published on, for example, the arXiv.org repository of electronic preprints, then you may omit to provide the word 'unpublished'
Year and month of correspondence (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In an unpublished paper: "Artificial intelligence for image processing,” the author Hao Shi draws a distinction between ..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5 Shi V., Artificial intelligence for image processing, unpublished.