Timeline for Should citations on PowerPoint slides be shortened?
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 22:27 | comment | added | Snijderfrey | @Azor Ahai You can add the first author of you like, no objections. More complete info is better. I disagree with the rest of your comment. And references are a crucial part in scientific work. They need room. It is okay if they are visible. If you have multiple references just list them on the slides in some short but complete version. Seriously, it improves your presentation. But I see that my point of view represents a minority here. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 22:06 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @Snij The point is not necessarily to provide a way for audience members to locate a paper. First of all, audiences may recognize the first author or be familiar with the paper based on the authors and year. No one could identify a paper in the format you gave, compared to the proposed style. Second It's easier to write down and remember a name than a string of numbers. Third, many journals don't even have page numbers anyway. Fourth it's much easier to perform a library search by author year journal than by issue. Fifth, what would you do with multiple references? | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @puppet I've never struggled to locate a paper in this manner. It's not often the same first author has two papers in the same journal where they're so close it's impossible to tell what's meant. Perhaps that's field dependent | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 19:52 | comment | added | Snijderfrey | The question is old, but honestly I am a bit shocked about the bad advice to include incomplete references to a slide. Excuses dealing with the beauty of the slides are inacceptable when it comes to proper references. In your example, writing "Science, 280(5367), 1253–1256." at least would allow to locate the source unambiguously. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 19:28 | comment | added | puppetsock | @AzorAhai In what way is it good? It's of no use whatever. As I said, I'm not hunting through an entire year of Science to find this paper. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 17:14 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @puppetsock Not every talk ever has notes, or is set up for notes to be handed out. A shortened citation style like this is a good compromise. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 15:30 | comment | added | puppetsock | I would leave the citations off the slides completely. Presumably there is a complete write-up. Put the cites in there. Or possibly your slide-making software lets you make notes for each slide. You can put the full cite on there and hand out notes. But I really hate looking at an incomplete cite such as the last one. Not hunting through an entire year of Science to find this paper. | |
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| Dec 6, 2016 at 14:26 | answer | added | MK Adams | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 23:45 | answer | added | J.R. | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 22:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/558751167325675521 | ||
| Jan 23, 2015 at 21:41 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | This question is very close to that other question. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 21:28 | answer | added | D.W. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 19:54 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | If you make your slides available for download, turn your short references into DOI links. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 16:03 | vote | accept | shimizu | ||
| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | Mad Jack | Option B is most common in my neck of the woods (electrical engineering), mainly for the reason you already gave: it looks "cleaner." | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:35 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:34 | answer | added | Bill Barth | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jan 23, 2015 at 15:23 | history | asked | shimizu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |