BibTeX bibliography style: IEEEtran

The BibTeX style IEEEtran is intended to be used for IEEE Journals and Conferences. References are not sorted in the bibliography.

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References in IEEEtran?

I've downloaded the official IEEE LaTeX template but am having some trouble adding references in bibtex format.

For instance if I wanted to cite and reference this article , given as:

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General Edit : IEEEtran is just for the author's convenience to get an idea of the approximate end product. The house-style of IEEE is not released and your (journal) article will be modified by the editors and copy-editors of the publication office. So no need to super tune your article, balance columns adjust biographies etc. when you are submitting the final version. A rough idea of what is what is enough.

Having said that I've removed my previous comment as it might be understood as it's Michael Shell's fault which is something that I would not even think. I'm not happy with IEEE and its workflow, that's about it.

First of all, IEEE is really bad with conference style (I should probably say that the IEEEtran is getting old pretty fast.) and many conferences encourage their users to download the ieeeconf style from various sources. However, the following is not giving me any errors:

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It can be either due to;

P.S. or may be you are using \ref{} instead of \cite{} ;)

Faheem's user avatar

Actual Reason for this error is... I found that there are two things that I found are necessary to make the IEEEtran class compile:

If either of these two things is not the case, I also get the same LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item error. Bizarrely, with a single citation it works for me, but after commenting it out it crashes again.

The apparent reason for this is that the IEEEtran class doesn't like empty bibliographies and can't deal with that. I haven't been able to find an underlying reason for that, though, nor a way to fix it.

CyberBoy's user avatar

LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item

Before anything, just put the IEEEabrv in the folder of your TeX installation. It could be as simple as missing IEEEabrv file.

IEEEabrv was missing in my TeX installations. You need to download IEEEabrv and put it in the directory of your TeX file.

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If you cite something like ~\cite{Euzenat10} in your text but there is no any reference in the corresponding .bbl file named Euzenat10 , then it throws the mentioned error (it may be the cause of misspelling.). When you execute the BibTex command, you can see the message box which citations it couldn't recognize.

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IEEE style is a way of citing your sources by listing them all in a numbered reference list at the end of your paper and referring to them with the corresponding number in the text.

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The numbered reference page appears at the end of your text, listing full information on all the sources you’ve cited. Sources are numbered in the order in which they were cited.

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IEEE in-text citations

In-text citations in IEEE style consist of the number of the relevant reference, presented in square brackets [1]. You should stick to one of these styles, not a mix of the two. Include a citation whenever you quote or paraphrase a source.

Each source has one number. If you cite the same source repeatedly, use the same number each time.

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Citations in IEEE can either just be placed at the relevant point in the sentence (e.g., after the author name or after a quote), or they can be incorporated into the sentence structure by treating them like nouns (essentially replacing the name of the author or study).

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Now you can import this .bib file in the main .tex file. See the next example.

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The command \addbibresource{mybibliography.bib} adds the created bibliography file to the document so you can use those references. See Bibliography management in LaTeX for more information about bibliography management.

Uploading your bibliography database

If you already have a bibliography file that you need to use in a Overleaf project, you can upload it. Click the Upload icon located on top of the left panel.

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A dialog box will appear, you can either drag and drop the .bib file(s), or choose select from your computer to upload file(s) from your device.

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Once the upload process is finished you can include the .bib file in your main .tex document.

Using a template

The Overleaf Gallery provides a large collection of templates, including several bibliography-related templates:

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For example, a Gallery search lists the entry Multiple bibliographies with bibunits which shows how to create multiple bibliographies/reference lists in the same document:

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