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title: IEEE Citation Generator — Free, From a DOI, arXiv ID, or ISBN | Scholar Sidekick
description: Free IEEE citation generator. Turn a DOI, arXiv ID, PMID, or ISBN into an IEEE-style reference with quoted title and vol./no./pp. block. No signup.
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# IEEE Citation Generator

> HTML version: https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/ieee-citation-generator

Generate references in IEEE style — the bracketed-number format of the IEEE Editorial Style Manual, used across electrical engineering and computer science — from any supported identifier: DOI, arXiv ID, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, ISSN, ADS bibcode, or scholarly URL. Output includes initials-first authors, the article title in quotation marks, the abbreviated journal title (Proc. IEEE), and the vol./no./pp. block with the doi: suffix.

## What this tool does

Takes one identifier per line and returns one IEEE-style reference per line. Metadata is fetched live from the registry each identifier belongs to (Crossref, arXiv, PubMed, OpenLibrary, NASA ADS), so the reference matches what the publisher has on file. Authors are written initials-first (Y. Bengio); up to six authors are listed, and the first author + et al. is used when a paper has seven or more.

## How to use

1. Open [the tool](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/ieee-citation-generator).
2. Paste the identifiers into the input, one per line.
3. Copy the references into your manuscript and number them in order of first citation; in-text citations are bracketed numbers such as [1].

## Programmatic access

The same formatting is exposed via [`POST /api/format`](https://scholar-sidekick.com/docs) with `style: "ieee"` (a builtin formatter, alongside `vancouver`, `ama`, `apa`, and `cse`). 10,000+ further styles are available by CSL id. Anonymous access is free with a published rate limit.

## LaTeX, Zotero, and Word

Most IEEE templates use the IEEEtran class and bibliography style — build the .bib file with the [DOI to BibTeX converter](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-bibtex) and let the class format the references. For Zotero, install "IEEE" from the [Zotero Style Repository](https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=IEEE). To move references into a manager, export RIS with the [DOI to RIS converter](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-ris).

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