Verify IEEE citations
IEEE uses bracketed numeric references and abbreviated venues, and frequently cites arXiv preprints by ID. A real arXiv identifier attached to the wrong title is a classic failure mode — the ID looks authoritative even when the paper it names is different.
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IEEE reference anatomy
[#] Initials. Surname, “Title,” Journal, vol., no., pp., Year.
[1] Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio, and G. Hinton, “Deep learning,” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7553, pp. 436–444, 2015.
What goes wrong in IEEE bibliographies
- Conference papers cited as journal articles and vice versa
- arXiv IDs that point to different preprints than the cited title
- Numbered references reordered without renumbering the text
A IEEE citation we would flag
[7] T. Brown et al., “Deep reinforcement learning for robotics,” arXiv:2005.14165, 2020.
Partial — real source, fields differ
arXiv:2005.14165 is a real preprint — but it is “Language Models are Few-Shot Learners” (GPT-3), not a robotics paper. We resolve the ID and warn that it names a different work than cited.