A few days ago, I asked Springer about whether I need to cite my own paper's preprint, and I was told by an editor:
"Citation of preprint is not mandatory. But it is a good practice to
do that. I suggest you to please cite the preprint. It usually helps
in cross-linking of the paper".
I needed to figure out how to cite it, and found that when citing your own preprint which is going to be published, it is typically cited using the @unpublished
entry if you are using BibTex.
As an example:
@Unpublished{paperUniqueName,
author = {AuthorName},
title = {The Paper Title},
note = {Preprint at \url{https://somerxiv.com/preprint/some/link/}},
year = {2023},
doi = {the/doi/url/if/available},
publisher = {Name of the Rxiv},
}
Note the need to use \url
so that no errors are thrown.
I cited it in the "Related Work" section of my paper, where I simply mentioned "The preprint of this paper is located at \cite{paperUniqueName}
".
The topic of citing preprints in general is under some debate.