IEEE Referencing Quiz

Examine the following IEEE reference for a book and identify any element that is incorrect. Revise the mistake (if any).

[1] S. Tanenbaum (2014), "Modern Operating Systems", 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA: Prentice Hall.

A graduate student is compiling a journal article reference for her master's thesis in Software Engineering. In IEEE referencing style, ordering components that must be included.

• Journal of Software Engineering Research

• 2023

• "Advanced Algorithms for Data Mining"

• vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 45-60

• J. Smith, A. Brown

You are given the following elements for an IEEE reference to a conference paper.

Arrange these elements in the correct order according to IEEE style.

• M. Garcia and D. Lee

• pp. 105-112

• 2024

• International Conference on Cloud Computing (ICCC)

• "Secure Cloud Architectures"

For a technical report with the following details, construct the correctly ordered IEEE reference:

Author: Software Engineering Institute.

Title: "Best Practices in Agile Development."

Report Number: CMU/SEI-2023-TR-010.

Institution: Carnegie Mellon University.

Month: December. Year: 2023.

A master's student has drafted the following IEEE reference for a website:

[1] Wikipedia, "Software Engineering," [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering. Accessed June 15, 2025.

Identify 1 (ONE) issues where this reference might deviate from strict IEEE referencing guidelines for online sources and suggest how it could be improved.