Research Guides: IEEE Citation Guide: Theses

Basic format to reference a Ph.D. Dissertation

[#] Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of dissertation,” Ph.D. dissertation, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, Year.

Referencing elements to cite:

[#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
Title of dissertation, in lowercase and double quotation marks
Ph.D. dissertation
Abbreviation of the Academic Department, Faculty or College that awarded the Ph.D.
Abbreviation of the University
City of University
State Abbreviation
Year of Publication

Example:

[1] K. Jegathala Krishnan, "Implementation of renewable energy to reduce carbon consumption and fuel cell as a back-up power for national broadband network (NBN) in Australia," Ph.D dissertation, College of Eng. and Sc., Victoria Univ., Melb., 2013.

Basic format to reference a Master or Bachelor thesis

[#] Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), “Title of thesis,” M.S. or B.S. thesis, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, Year.

Referencing elements to cite:

[#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name(s)
Title of thesis, in lowercase and double quotation marks
M.S. thesis for Master’s thesis or B.S. thesis for Bachelor’s thesis
Abbreviation of the Academic Department, Faculty or College that awarded the degree
Abbreviation of the University
City of University
State Abbreviation
Year of Publication

[2] M. T. Long, "On the statistical correlation between the heave, pitch and roll motion of road transport vehicles," Research Master thesis, College of Eng. and Sc., Victoria Univ., Melb., Vic., 2016.

Referencing a theses: Examples

Material type	In-text example	Reference List example
Ph. D. Dissertation	As shown by Willsky in [3], the various ...	[3] E. R. Willsky, “Nanomaterials for electronic and sensing applications,” Ph.D. dissertation, School of Elect. and Inform. Eng., Univ. Sydney, Sydney, 2012.
Master degree thesis	For more details see [1].	[1] Z. Shen, “Colour differentiation in digital images,” M.S. Thesis, Sch. of Comp. Science and Maths., Victoria Univ., Melbourne, 2003. Accessed on: Oct., 28, 2015. Available: http://vuir.vu.edu.au/15529/1/zhenliang_shen.pdf
Bachelor degree thesis	As in [2], the quality of the sound ...	[2] J. O. Williams, “Acoustic analysis of sound,” B.S. Thesis, Sch. of Eng. and Appl. Sciences., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 2013.