Take the 2-minute tour ×  So the English class teacher is
teaching IEEE referencing style, and we have something like this
as an example:  Chan [1] claims that...  The teacher said:  The
referencing number is followed by the author's last name.
Wait... I thought "A is followed by B" means B follows A, that
means A comes first, B comes next.  Has the teacher made an
obvious mistake, or is it my fault? (Could I have misheard
that?)  share|improve this question Either is possible: you may
have misheard, or the statement made was wrong. Certainly the
number follows the name in your example. –  Andrew Leach Feb 27
'13 at 15:25  2 Answers 2  up vote 5 down vote accepted  There's
a chance the teacher was explaining how the reference is
formatted at the end of the paper. From an IEEE citation
reference guide:  [2] L. Stein, “Random patterns,” in Computers
and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New York: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55-70. [3]
R. L. Myer, “Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials,” in
Nonlinear Optics, vol. 4, P. G. Ha