Electrical and computer engineering

LaTeX is a free document preparation system widely used in scientific writing for its advanced typesetting abilities with mathematical formulas, foreign characters, referencing and page layout.

• Introduction to LaTex
• Getting LaTeX
• Step-by-step guide to using EndNote with LaTeX and BibTeX 
• Help documentation from the LaTeX Project and other organizations
• LATEX for Computer Scientists from The University of Melbourne
• Online LaTex editor, Overleaf

  • Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes

• Books on LaTex available from the McGill Library: 

Many publishers require authors to prepare their manuscript using their selected style manuals. The following manuals are most frequently used by journals in computer science, electrical and computer engineering.

• IEEE editorial style manual
  • IEEE Reference Guide
  • IEEE Article Templates
• IET research journals: author guide (see Section 5. Manuscript presentation)
• ACM citation style and reference formats
  • ACM primary article template: LaTex and Word

Citation management software helps keep your references and full text articles organized in electronic format, and generates in-text citations and the reference list in your paper.

•  EndNote is a citation management tool licensed by McGill Library for students, staff and faculty to download and install on their computers.  
  • Downloading EndNote
  • Attending an EndNote workshop
  • Citations FAQ
  • Getting help with your EndNote and citation questions

• McGill users only
• Open access resource
• Free resource
• In-library use
• Catalogue record