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    Basic IEEE Website Format

    IEEE Website Citation Format

    [#] Author, "Title," Website Name, Date. [Online]. Available: URL. Accessed: Date.

    Author: Individual, organization, or omit if unavailable

    Title: Page or article title in quotes

    Website: Site name or organization

    Access Date: Required for changing content

    Website with Author

    [1] J. Smith, "Advanced signal processing techniques," IEEE Signal Processing Society, Mar. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/tutorials/advanced-techniques. Accessed: Jan. 15, 2024.

    Organizational Website

    [2] National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Cybersecurity framework," NIST, Feb. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://nist.gov/cybersecurity-framework. Accessed: Jan. 10, 2024.

    No Author Available

    [3] "5G technology overview," Qualcomm Technologies, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://qualcomm.com/5g-overview. Accessed: Jan. 12, 2024.

    Technical Websites and Resources

    Technical websites require special attention to authority and currency of information:

    IEEE Xplore Digital Library

    [1] "IEEE Xplore digital library," IEEE, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Accessed: Jan. 15, 2024.

    Major technical databases and repositories

    Technical Blog Post

    [2] R. Johnson, "Machine learning in edge computing," Google AI Blog, Nov. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://ai.googleblog.com/ml-edge-computing. Accessed: Jan. 8, 2024.

    Industry technical blogs and insights

    Company White Paper

    [3] Intel Corporation, "Quantum computing roadmap 2024," Intel, Jan. 2024. [Online]. Available: https://intel.com/quantum-roadmap-2024.pdf. Accessed: Jan. 20, 2024.

    Corporate technical publications

    Research Institution Page

    [4] MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, "Distributed systems research," MIT CSAIL, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://csail.mit.edu/research/distributed-systems. Accessed: Jan. 5, 2024.

    Academic research group websites

    Documentation and API References

    Technical documentation and API references are crucial sources in engineering papers:

    Software Documentation

    [1] Python Software Foundation, "Python 3.12 documentation," Python.org, Oct. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://docs.python.org/3.12/. Accessed: Jan. 15, 2024.

    Official software documentation

    API Documentation

    [2] Amazon Web Services, "AWS IoT Core API reference," AWS, Dec. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/apireference/. Accessed: Jan. 10, 2024.

    Cloud service and API documentation

    Framework Documentation

    [3] TensorFlow Team, "TensorFlow guide," TensorFlow, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://tensorflow.org/guide. Accessed: Jan. 12, 2024.

    Machine learning and development frameworks

    Hardware Documentation

    [4] NVIDIA Corporation, "CUDA programming guide," NVIDIA Developer, Nov. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/. Accessed: Jan. 8, 2024.

    Hardware and system documentation

    Standards Organizations

    Standards organizations provide authoritative technical specifications:

    IEEE Standards

    [1] IEEE Standards Association, "IEEE 802.11ax-2021 standard," IEEE, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/802.11ax/7028/. Accessed: Jan. 15, 2024.

    IEEE technical standards and specifications

    Internet Engineering Task Force

    [2] Internet Engineering Task Force, "RFC 9000: QUIC protocol," IETF, May 2021. [Online]. Available: https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9000.txt. Accessed: Jan. 10, 2024.

    IETF RFCs and internet standards

    World Wide Web Consortium

    [3] World Wide Web Consortium, "Web authentication API," W3C, Mar. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/. Accessed: Jan. 12, 2024.

    W3C web standards and recommendations

    International Organization for Standardization

    [4] International Organization for Standardization, "ISO/IEC 27001:2022 information security," ISO, Oct. 2022. [Online]. Available: https://iso.org/standard/27001. Accessed: Jan. 8, 2024.

    International standards and specifications

    Software Repositories and Code

    Source code repositories and software packages are increasingly cited in technical papers:

    GitHub Repository

    [1] J. Smith, "Deep learning signal processing," GitHub, Dec. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/jsmith/dl-signal-processing. Accessed: Jan. 15, 2024.

    Open source code repositories

    Software Package

    [2] NumPy Developers, "NumPy user guide," NumPy, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/. Accessed: Jan. 10, 2024.

    Software library documentation

    Dataset Repository

    [3] MIT Technology Review, "AI dataset collection," MIT, Nov. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://technologyreview.com/datasets/ai-collection. Accessed: Jan. 12, 2024.

    Research datasets and data collections

    Container Registry

    [4] Docker Inc., "TensorFlow official images," Docker Hub, Jan. 2024. [Online]. Available: https://hub.docker.com/r/tensorflow/tensorflow. Accessed: Jan. 20, 2024.

    Containerized software and tools

    Best Practices for Code Citations

    • Include version numbers or commit hashes when relevant
    • Cite specific releases rather than main branch
    • Include DOI when available (e.g., Zenodo DOIs)
    • Reference documentation along with code
    • Consider citing related research papers

    ⚠️ Access Date Guidelines

    • Always include for documentation and changing content
    • Required for software repositories and code
    • Essential for API documentation and guides
    • Optional for stable standards and specifications
    • Use format: Accessed: Month Day, Year