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Engineering Design and Practice Sequence (EDPS)

Information Resources and Management for Engineering Design and Practice Sequence (EDPS)

Reference Management Tools

Reference management software, also known as citation management software, allows you to:

  • collect references
  • store references in a web account or on your desktop
  • organise references
  • add notes to your references
  • link to full text, web pages and documents
  • cite your references and create bibliographies

Some also have additional features such as:

  • sharing your references
  • pdf highlighting
  • collaboration
  • social networking

What is Referencing?

IEEE citation style includes in-text citations, numbered in square brackets, which refer to the full citations listed in the reference list at the end of the paper. The reference list is organized numerically.

This is an example of how in-text citations should look:

At the end of the paper, a list of references is included in the order corresponding to the in-text citation as shown below: