Report title: The report title should be in sentence case (capital letter on the first word, and then lower case, unless it is a proper noun, e.g. Analysis of the treated wood market for agricultural and horticultural uses in New Zealand.
Company/organisation name: Abbreviate the name of the company/organisation, e.g. Aerospace Corporation would become Aerospace Corp. For more information on abbreviations, see Part IV IEEE Referencing Guide.
Place of publication: For the place of publication - after the city, include the state code for the USA only, e.g. St Louis, MI, USA. Outside the USA, use city and country, e.g. Auckland, New Zealand.
Report number: Always include the report number if available.
For more reference list format and style information, see General information - basics of referencing.
[1] Author, "Title of report," Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, Rep. xxx, year. Accessed: Month Day, Year. [Online]. Available: URL
[1] C. G. Lamb, "Christchurch household survey: A survey of Christchurch residents' opinions of proposed air pollution control methods and clean air incentives and assistance," Environ. Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Rep. R02/27, 2002. Accessed: May 10, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://ChristchurchhouseholdsurveyasurveyofChristchurch.pdf
[1] Ministry for the Environment, and Stats NZ, "Environment Aotearoa 2019," Wellington, New Zealand, Rep. ME 1416, 2019. Accessed: May 5, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://environment.govt.nz/assets/Publications/Files/environment-aotearoa-2019.pdf
[2] Author, "Title of report," Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, Rep. xxx, year.
[2] ASME Special Working Group on Probabilistic Methods in Design, "Development of reliability-based load and resistance factor design (LRFD) methods for piping," ASME, New York, NY, USA, Res. Develop. Rep. CRTD-86, 2007.
[1] Engineering New Zealand, "Building momentum: 2019/20 annual report," Eng. New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 2021. Accessed: May 4, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.bringingengineeringtolife.nz/
[2] Centre for Advanced Engineering, "A report on possible government interventions to promote the sustainable development of New Zealand's ocean resources," Centre Adv. Eng., Univ. Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2006.
Always include any report numbers, contract numbers or grant numbers provided in the publication.
For more than six authors, list the first six authors followed by et al.
[1] Author, "Title of report," Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, Rep. xxx, year. Accessed: Month Day, Year. [Online]. Available: URL
[2] Author, "Title of report," Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Country, Rep. xxx, year.
[1] T. Freeman and R. Cudmore, "Review of odour management in New Zealand: Technical report," Ministry Environ., Wellington, New Zealand, Air Qual. Tech. Rep. no. 24, 2002. Accessed: Nov 30, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.cschi.cz/odour/files/world/odour-tr-aug021.pdf
[2] K. A. Forster, "Report on the use of vacuum and SF6 switchgear at 11 KV: An addendum to Engineering report no. 341 dated May 1979," Dept. Elect. Eng., Univ. Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, no. 364, 1984.
When using another person's ideas or words, include an Arabic numeral in square brackets (consecutively numbered).
... has been recently identified [1].
The same number is used if the reference is referred to again. If referring to a different page/part from that reference, include the relevant information with the reference number.
Sensible heat is when heat is transferred to a material by raising or lowering the temperature [1, Ch. 5].
OR
Sensible heat is the transfer of heat to a material by raising or lowering the temperature [1, pp. 340-345].
If you are expressing ideas that have originated from more than one source, separate the numbers with commas if referring to a range of numbers (references).
... in alkyl sulphates such as sodium lauryl sulphate [3], [5], [6] and diethyl sulphate [7]. Other compounds showing promise were those in the C12 - C14 range [8], [9], [10].
Only use the author's name where it is integral to the understanding of the sentence; otherwise, just refer to the reference number.
Cook [11] reduced the calculated time ...
.. as demonstrated by Cook [2].
If citing a reference in the text with three or more authors, list the first author followed by et al.
Woods et al. [12] demonstrated the need for speed restrictions ...
For direct quotes, use quotation marks and include the page number(s).
The experts stated that "kinetic energy is the energy possessed by a moving system because of its velocity" [1, p. 139].