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IEEE citation style

Unpublished work

IEEE provides the following rule for private communications but in many cases, you can embed the information in the body of your text. For example, "In response to my query, Alexandra Bell sent an e-mail stating that specifications had last been updated in March."

Model for an unpublished document

  1. J. K. Author, private communication, Abbrev. Month, year.
  2. J. K. Author, “Title of paper,” unpublished.

Example

E-mail message

  1. M. Aftahi, private communication, Dec 2016.
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