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.

• Download LaTeX
• Books on LaTex available from McGill Library

  • The LaTex Web companion : integrating TeX, HTML, and XML (Schulich Library, call # QA 76.76 H94 G67 1999)

  • The LaTeX companion (Schuich Library, call # Z253.4 L38 G66 2004)

  • Latex for Linux : a vade mecum (Schulich Library, call # Z253.4 L38 L56 1999)

  • LATEX : a document preparation system : user's guide and reference manual (Schulich Library, call # Z253.4 L38 L35 1994)

  • The LaTex graphics companion : illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript (Schulich Library, call # Z253.4 L38 G663 1997)

• BibTex and LaTex: Introduction to BibTex from University of Saskatchewan University Library
• 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

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

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 journals word style guide
  • ACM LaTeX style guide
  • ACM master article template: LaTex and Word
• AIP referencing guidelines