Timeline for Citing in undergraduate thesis
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| Aug 19, 2016 at 12:38 | answer | added | Ébe Isaac | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 2, 2016 at 16:06 | comment | added | iwriteonbananas | Is it acceptable if I preface a subsection by a sentence like "Throughout this subsection we largely follow the account laid out by Hatcher in [5]." so I won't have to cite Hatcher [5] again before every lemma/theorem? @JeffE | |
| Aug 2, 2016 at 15:49 | comment | added | JeffE | There's a general exception for textbook-level material, since otherwise you fall down an infinite rabbit hole. However, you should include a sentence like "We use several standard results in algebraic topology; for further background, see Hatcher [5] or Munkres [8]." unless you expect your audience (by default: you six months ago) to be intimately familiar with those results already. | |
| Aug 2, 2016 at 15:39 | comment | added | iwriteonbananas | So when I include a standard theorem from a textbook for example, it is always necessary that I say something along the lines of "The following theorem is taking from [1]: ... " beforehand, right? @JeffE | |
| Aug 2, 2016 at 15:19 | comment | added | JeffE | The fact that you are writing an undergraduate thesis is utterly irrelevant. If you use a source, you must cite it. If a result if not originally yours, you must cite its original source (or at least a credible and accessible secondary source). Every time. | |
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| Aug 2, 2016 at 14:57 | history | asked | iwriteonbananas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |