Queries related to citing or referencing published or unpublished sources.
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How to decide whether a statement requires citing a reliable source
When writing a paper, I usually face the problem of deciding whether a sentence is cite-able or not. Let's say I am writing about optimization of an algorithm. And I used Java to implement it. So, in ...
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How do I cite an unpublished work in my paper? which incidentally is my second submission to the same conference [duplicate]
The problem is I completed a work earlier and did another work which extends this work. However, I haven't got the earlier work published. I plan to send these two papers to a conference but I do not ...
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Favoring citations in the same journal
I have once, some time ago, received a rejection notice in which the journal editor made what I thought was a peculiar comment. The reviewers all found that the work was good, but one emitted a doubt ...
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How to cite software documentation?
As my bachelor's thesis, I'm developing some software (a mocking framework for MATLAB). As such, I often need to reference software documentation - both from MATLAB and the software which serves as my ...
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Should you provide citation for an professional organization or learned society?
I am writing a paper in which I refer to a database maintained by a learned society. Something like:
We performed this analysis on 7,195 structures taken at random from the Poisonous Substances ...
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DOI for russian journal Tekhnicheskaya Kibernetika
(Not sure if this is the right SX site, but math.sx seemed to have no questions concerning DOIs.)
Everything I cite in my thesis has a DOI or URL (I think that's important), but I'm citing an article ...
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How to quote a passage with a punctuation error?
I want to quote the following passage (actually, the original passage as somewhat longer but let's consider this a minimal working example)
Awareness of others, can address affective needs.
but ...
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Citing a funding application in a student thesis
I gave an application for a funded project to a student as reference material for his Masters thesis. He wants to put a reference to this text into his bibliography. What is the necessary ...
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When citing a personal corespondence, is the full name always mentioned?
If you're citing a personal correspondence, e.g.:
"Cats are vicious" (Bill Bobson, personal correspondence, March 12, 2012)
and you continue to use this personal correspondence with a cat expert, ...
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How do I sign my papers?
My name is Jorge Fernández de Cossío Díaz. In my country, we have two last names: the first (Fernández de Cossío) comes from the father side, and the second (Díaz) comes from the mother side.
I have ...
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How is an online article referenced if there is no obvious author?
The referencing style I am using for online newspaper articles is thus:
Karlsen, T.-K. (2013) For scouts, the South American youth tournament is hard slog, not high life. Guardian [Online] 28 ...
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How to cite a “product”?
This question is closely related to How to cite a website URL? but more concrete.
I'm currently writing my master thesis. In the section "related work" I give an overview which also includes concrete ...
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Cite paper in the same upcoming conference
I had two papers approved for a workshop in a IEEE conference and I'm going to send the camera-ready version soon.
Is it OK to have one paper cite the other? If it's OK, do I have to reference the ...
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How to quickly get complete list of citations to all my papers?
I need to get citations (with complete info including authors, journal, date) to all my papers. What's the best way (hopefully without too much manual copy & paste) to do this?
What i so far ...
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Finding academic collaborations by location
What is the best way to find academic collaborations between two locations (e.g. Berlin and Australia) occurring within a certain field / topic? Some variety of massive, searchable, citation / ...
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How should I cite something learned second-hand (eg, from Wikipedia) when I haven't seen the primary source?
I want to cite something that I have learned from a Wikipedia page. However, I'm loathe to cite Wikipedia because of the perception of it by my tutors, so I try to cite the original source.
What ...
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How to cite a rebuilt graphic
I'm going to have my first presentation in some weeks. Therefore I read some papers and now I'm building the presentation with LaTeX.
In the papers, I found some very useful graphics. But for quality ...
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How to reference other people's work
There are a few reference citing formats around but I'd like to know what's the relevant information to put in a reference in general. If I want to cite a book, what should go in the reference other ...
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What is the proper way to cite the usage of an API?
For a grant I am writing, I need to describe how I mined data from social media sites. I collected data from sites such as Twitter using each site's API and a Python wrapper. In writing my methods, I ...
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Why do citation styles for webpages include accessed date?
I do understand that citations should be as precise as possible (including e.g. edition of a book or a page number), so that ideally, the reader can find the information exactly as I found it when ...
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Choosing which version of an article to cite
I sometimes find an article published in several conferences.
If similar material is published in different conference proceedings,
how do I choose which one to cite?
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Where to find journal impact factors stripped of self-citation?
Where can I find a database of impact factors where self-citation has been removed? A journal's self-citations are defined as those citations by that journal's papers towards other papers in the same ...
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If I am building on results of my earlier works, do I have to include them in my bibliography?
In my master's thesis I am building on two earlier works of myself.
-> One is a study project I've done together with two fellow students, -> the other one is an assignment I did on my own.
If I'm ...
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How far back should one go in citing classic works?
I once jokingly included in a thesis:
The equations of motion [1] for a rigid body can be reformulated as…
[1] I. Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687.
While citing ...
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Citing non Academic Books
What is the best way to cite non academic books in papers, for example, if we are writing a paper on economics, and want to say that "Charles Dickens presents a good portrayal of the English society ...
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Searching for a quotation manager
I’m looking for a way to manage the text of the quotations that most certainly I will use (i.e. quote) in the future. I’m a philosopher, so this is specially handy —and even required— for the ...
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Is it accepted to cite an entire issue of a journal?
There exist review journals who every now and then publish a thematic issue on a given topic. For example, Chemical Reviews does so: one thematic issue (see e.g. this one) includes an editorial and a ...
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Is it ever alright to add a subtitle to a title shortened by publication when citing?
Let's assume that a paper was submitted under the "Extremely long and necessary title that explains you are studying pieces of Class A, Class B and Class C of this Bigger (and much more frequently ...
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Are there academic reasons to only use journal articles and books when writing?
Recently I was researching for a paper, but the results of my research got me reflecting on my habits:
Is is at all appropriate for me to use Google (partly also Google Scholar) for academic ...
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Is it acceptable to refer to theories to support an argument?
In my field, education, there are many named theories, for e.g., the “Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model”, which educators often talk about and debate.
While writing various graduate papers, my ...
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Are citations in abstracts considered bad style?
I'd like to know your opinion on citations in abstracts.
At my university, there is no rule on that matter so it's basically a
question of preference.
Do you think it's okay to have citations in an ...
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Crediting sources one has found citations from
Suppose that I am doing a literature review on a topic, and I read paper A, which makes an interesting claim and references paper B as its source. Naturally, as paper B is then the primary source, I ...
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How should “et al.” be used for parenthetical versus non-parenthetical citations using the APA citation style?
Someone told me that in APA style you treat parenthetical versus non-parenthetical in-text references separately when applying et al.
For example, let's say you're citing Smith, Jones, and Roberts ...
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How do I appropriately use inline citations for multiple quoted paragraphs?
I'm writing a paper where I have a number of sentences across a few paragraphs, all from the same source. How should I use inline citations in this situation? Should I put them after each listed fact ...
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Is it reasonable to cite published computational results rather than reproduce them yourself?
In computer science, when we write an academic paper, we often have to include comparative results that our method has some kind of quantitative advantage against some other state of the art results.
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How to find all of the responses to a published research paper?
While searching through various journals with my library's on-line journal search tools, I have occasionally found short articles which are simply comments on other published papers. These short ...
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How to cite conference contribution that appears later in a Journal Supplement
People from our group attended some important conferences (Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, etc) and sent abstracts that were accepted as posters or talks. Later, the abstract appears in a ...
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Is there any referencing style analyzer?
As different journals and Conference proceedings have different reference styles, it is very much important to quickly identify the specific reference style they prefer.
To do this, is there any ...
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Will self-citation be viewed as self-promotion in academia?
As we know, citation counts are important to judge one's research activity. Is it good to cite one's previous works? Will it be viewed as an act of advertisement or self-promotion?
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Is it ok to cite someone who provided a bad citation for correct information?
In a master's thesis the author provided a seemingly incorrect citation. ( Link to paper citation 4)
The information is obviously correct but in the cited paper I couldn't find any reference to the ...
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How do I use/add first name (or forename) in citation?
I like to use first names (or forename) to cite the work of others.
It has become even more relevent when I found that somebody working in my field shares my initial and surname.
However, this is not ...
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Is it a faux pas to ask for a colleague's figure in a separate but related publication?
I'm an undergraduate with virtually no experience with the expectations of academia (so I apologize in advance for the silly question). I'm finishing up a paper describing my research and would like ...
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What is the average number of articles written per author in a year and has it increased recently?
Does anyone researched the data about scientific productivity? I.e. what is the average number of articles written by author in a year in a specific field? I am referring to average, since this is ...
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Web Service to fetch article citations
I am trying to find a way to search for all the citations contained in an article. What I want to do is create a workflow for my research where:
I have a pool of articles that I have already read.
I ...
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Should one update a manuscript to current state-of-art when re-submitting?
Publishing in a journal is a long process that might take a lot of time (> 1 year), and is possibly involved of several phases (submit, re-submit, re-re-submit...)
As the time passes, things change. ...
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Why are some sources cited twice in a bibliography, once with DOI and once with arXiv?
Just to clarify what I mean, I have seen some review articles that have bibliography items like this:
Bloggs, J., "The Paper that has Been Written", The Journal Title, Series Number, page number(s), ...
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What year to use when citing second editions of books
This seems like a silly question, but I can't find a clear answer online. If Dr. Brainiac's Big Book of Science was first published in 1974, but I have the second edition, published in 1996, should I ...
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How to sort search results from SCOPUS or Web of Knowledge by number of citation in a specific field?
I use SCOPUS or Web of Knowledge to search papers.
What I need to do is to sort the result in a descending order of number of citations.
SCOPUS and W_of_K both provide this feature.
But I further ...
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Ethics of a journal requiring that submissions cite existing articles in the journal
Recently, I became aware by own experiences and friend's stories that some international statistical journals (whose names I prefer to omit) are rejecting papers because they do not include a ...
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How to mark/cite text that you only translated?
In my thesis I included some pages of a foreign specification. To improve the reader's convenience I have translated them as they are vital to my topic and I can't paraphrase them.
How do I properly ...
