IEEE style is the referencing standard across engineering and IT programmes — including the BE and BCT courses at IOE Pulchowk, and the BSc CSIT and BE syllabi followed at Kathmandu University and Pokhara University. Instead of author–date brackets, IEEE numbers each source in the order you first cite it and lists those numbers at the end of the report.
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Engineering reports lean heavily on standards documents, datasheets, conference proceedings and technical manuals — sources that often have long corporate authors and no clear publication date. A numbered system keeps the running text readable: [4] takes up far less room mid-sentence than a full author–date bracket, which matters when a single paragraph cites five specifications.
IEEE also compresses author names hard. Initials come before the surname — R. Shrestha, not Shrestha, R. — and titles of articles and web pages sit inside quotation marks while book and journal titles are italicised in your final document.
Pattern: Author, "Title of the page," Site Name. [Online]. Available: URL
Example: Nepal Electricity Authority, "Load shedding schedule," Nepal Electricity Authority. [Online]. Available: https://www.nea.org.np
Where an organisation published the page and no individual is named, the organisation is the author. Add the date you retrieved the page if your department asks for access dates — many Nepali engineering departments do for online-only sources.
Pattern: Author, "Title of the article," Journal Name, vol. X, no. Y, pp. Z, Year.
Example: S. Adhikari and B. Karki, "Slope stability along the Prithvi Highway," Journal of the Institute of Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 88–96, 2020.
Volume, issue and page range all belong in the reference. If the article carries a DOI, include it — it is the most durable link a reader can follow.
Pattern: Author, "Title of the paper," in Proc. Conference Name, pp. Z, Year.
Conference papers are common in IEEE-referenced reports because engineering research often appears in proceedings before it reaches a journal. Abbreviate "Proceedings" to "Proc." and keep the conference name recognisable.
Number sources in the order you first cite them, not alphabetically. The first source mentioned in your report is [1] for the whole document, even if you cite it again in the conclusion.
Cite the same number every time you return to that source, and never renumber a source mid-report. For two sources at once, write [2], [5] rather than merging them.
IEEE is the usual style for engineering and IT coursework — BE and BCT at IOE, BE at Kathmandu University and Pokhara University, and BSc CSIT projects. Always confirm with your department, as some supervisors specify APA instead.
Use: Author, "Title of the page," Site Name. [Online]. Available: URL. If an organisation published the page and no person is named, the organisation is the author.
No. IEEE references are numbered in the order they first appear in your text, so the reference list follows citation order rather than alphabetical order.
Treat it as a report: the issuing body is the author, the standard number and title form the title, and the year of issue closes the reference.
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