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Pages: Cite an article from a journal
I want to cite an article from a journal, e.g. AMS.
So in the journal, there are several articles from different authors.
Actually I thought that in my bibliography I have to print "pages 56-67&...
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Correctly adding publisher information to BibTeX bibliographies
Certain bibliographic item classes in BibTeX require or recommend the inclusion of a address field which (as far as I can tell) is supposed to contain the city in which the publisher is located. ...
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How to cite GDPR and AI Act?
How to properly cite these two sources?
In the AI/ML literature I am finding many non-homogenous citations of these two documents, with some of them wanting to specify a chapter and others the whole ...
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Which authors do I use when citing technical documentation which is community-editable and has multiple contributors?
Let's take this sample page from Microsoft Docs. It lists multiple contributors (linked below the heading), some from the community with nicknames, as the pages can be edited by practically everyone ...
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How do I cite this 3D teapot model in my BibTeX file? [duplicate]
I am working on some data transformations that work in finite dimensions. To help motivate the reader I would like a simple, but not too simple, example to show how the transformations work. A 3D ...
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Do I need to specify pages when citing a book?
I am citing the book Statistical Power Analysis for the behavioral sciences from pages 77 to 81. It seems @book in bibtex has no option for pages though. (I know I can use @inbook but if pages ...
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Fast vs. final .bib file - making google-scholar .bib file publication-ready
Making literature review I typically browse google Scholar, cite interesting work, download BibTex from scholar into my .bib file on overleaf - that is it.
Which is more than fine for me... until the ...
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How do I cite a pullout of a news release?
How do I cite the pullout? Should I just cite the original? What would the bibtex be?
The pullout has information that is extremely useful, and I have not found the thing I needed anywhere else.
(I ...
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Avoid duplicate authors/citation keys in Mendeley
I recently encountered an issue when using Mendeley for generating bib-files. Some of the papers in I would like to use were written by authors with the same Name (but different persons), and ...
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Why does Researchgate not include the booktitle tag in their bibtex for inproceedings / conference papers?
After I always found incomplete entries in the bibliography of theses, I investigated the cause and discovered that Researchgate (RG) does not output a booktitle tag for inproceedings in BibTeX, even ...
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How to cite Stack Overflow surveys
How should I cite the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020?
If possible in BibTeX format.
This question was originally asked in meta Stack Exchange, but it was closed for being considered off-topic.
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Entering the correct Publisher and Editor in a BibTex citation
I would like to enter a PDF book I have purchased into a bibtex library using JabRef. JabRef requires the publisher and editor information for "Book" type entries. In the inside cover of my ...
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Need a CSL style that uses the month field in Bibtex
I do a lot of academic writing where I need to cite magazine and newspaper articles. My workflow is to write in Markdown / Org-mode and then export to docx using pandoc. So I use the citation ...
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How to cite a journal paper which do not have a page number?
I was very annoyed with the Elsevier's journals. Many of them do not provide the page number of the paper.
For example, see, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168420302176
You can ...
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Citing an URL using the Waybackmachine (web.archive.org)
I would like to quote the following quotation correctly:
Information is the oil of the 21st century and analytics is the internal combustion engine.
In other papers I found out that this quote ...
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Can I include just a folder from Zotero into Overleaf instead of my entire library?
I am setting up an Overleaf account to work with my Zotero account and ran into an annoying issue. I have one folder within my Zotero library which contains all the references I want to use in a ...
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bibtex entries for versions of the c++ standard
Where can I find BibTeX entries that help me cite a version of the C++ standard? In a paper I discuss the necessity of trailing return types, which became available in C++11. I want to be able to cite ...
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How to cite an authorless report in JabRef/Bibtex
I am learning to use bibtex/jabref in the context of a literature review and would like to cite the following report:
https://www.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/379567.pdf
The report is compiled by the ...
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How to handle capitalized abbreviations in Book, Anthology, Journal, etc. titles in APA?
I am using APA and need to cite an article from a conference that has a capitalized abbreviation in its name:
Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing
https://dl.acm.org/citation....
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How to cite a bookchapter that is accepted and To appear?
I have a book chapter that is accepted and I want to cite it on a conference paper that I should upload its camera ready today. What is the best way to cite it ? here is my bibtex.
@inbook{...
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How to cite this booklet/manual?
I am not sure how should I cite this concrete thing -
https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/news-and-expertise/articles/2016/07/global-investor-2-15-en.pdf
I am using bibtex, but ...
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import all references of a paper into a bibtex file
I have a paper that has say 100 references. I'd like to use a lot of them as references to a paper I'm writing, but it seems pretty laborious to go on each and everyone of them, search in google ...
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Cite NumPy in BibTex
How to cite NumPy in BibTex?
The Scipy citing page recommends:
Travis E, Oliphant. A guide to NumPy, USA: Trelgol Publishing, (2006).
Is it correct to use:
@Misc{numpy,
author = {Travis ...
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Alternatives to Google Scholar for citation / lit search / BibTex entries? [closed]
Simple question: What alternatives are there to Google Scholar for finding citations, doing lit searches, and most importantly, downloading citation data in BibTex?
There are lots of specialized ...
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citing company yearly reports in papers
I am writing a conference paper and want to cite the following report by Symantec using Bibtex (https://www.symantec.com/security-center/threat-report). I am currently using @techreport which only ...
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Cite a book in general and then a chapter in particular
The question is in the context of a paper and a thesis in the area of computational science, computer science and chemistry. I manage my references with Mendeley, and import them into a LaTeX file ...
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How to cite a website/manual where the authors are (mostly) unknown?
For my thesis, I need to cite some pieces of software documentation. The website in question is the documentation of Kubernetes.
I'm fine with using @misc entries in my bibtex file, but obviously I ...
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A reference that is old, has no bibtex entry, and probably not well-known throughout the readership. How to cite this?
I am writing an article for an audience that mostly consists of computer scientists. A specific part of the subject is motivated by Kirchhoff's laws. I intend to mention this fact and reference the ...
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How to cite a site from the dark web?
For my masters degree in computer science, I'm currently working on a paper on ransomware. Goal of this paper is to focus on academic writing and citing sources correctly.
Trustworthiness/Quality of ...
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Naming inconsistencies in booktitle fields of BibTeX entries provided by IEEEXplore
Why are the booktitle fields of BibTeX entries provided by IEEEXplore inconsistent in the following way:
@InProceedings{
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booktitle={2009 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and ...
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In-text citation: what is the correct way of using both last name (i.e., \citeauthor ) and typical citation (i.e., \cite)
I am using plain citation style with biblatex and was wondering about the convention of using \citeauthor (and probably \citeyear) along with \cite
While writing sometimes I do the following:
\...
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MLA bibliography style in computer science
Does anyone know a computer science or engineering journal that uses MLA as their bibliography style?
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How to cite computer terminals like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters?
Consider that I looked up some data, more specifically credit ratings for a sovereign, in the Bloomberg and the Thomson Reuters terminal for my thesis:
The sovereign is rated Aaa by Moody's, AAA by ...
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Bibliographic entry for a pseudymous work with known real author
This question is the bibliographic pendant to this question.
Let us suppose I write an academic paper where I cite the well known paper English sentences without overt grammatical subject (pdf), ...
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How to cite files on a CD-ROM?
I would like to cite one of the descriptions present on the DIEHARD test battery, which is located on a CD-ROM here. Specifically, I would like to cite the craps test. If I could have the citation in ...
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Why "in Proceedings of conference...", but not "in Journal of ...."
I'm wondering why a well-known citation style (bibtex's "plain" style) produces "In proceedings of 'conference name'" or "In 'conference name'", but drops "in" in case of journals. In my opinion, ...
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Find article link by bibtex citation key
I have a list of citation keys (entry names in bib file) but I don't have the name of article. How can I find the article link?
For example, according to bib file of this article, the citation key is ...
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Citing an ISO standard with multiple parts, using Harvard style?
I would like to cite an ISO standard that is split into multiple parts, I want to cite the whole standard but am unsure of how to do this in Harvard style.
ISO 14230 Road vehicles – Diagnostic ...
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Finding (correct) citation info for math references
I've just recently learned about BibTeX, rather than manually making a bibliography at the end of everything I write. Now I'd like a reliable source for the citation info.
At school I can use ...
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How to cite a paper with erratum?
I want to cite a paper [A], which has been corrected by an erratum [B] in the same journal. I have not found a rule how to cite this case.
Is it proper to cite [A,B], or just [A] or just [B].
I am ...
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Article with unspecified-but-present authorship ("consensus document")
I'd like to properly refrence an article whose author is mentioned as A Consensus Document (it has some 25 authors).
I have never seen this kind of authorship before; the citation entry generated by ...
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How to cite a Google Play app?
In my paper I need to cite an Android application.
There is an official way to cite the site Google Play?
I know the tag @misc on BibTeX, but I am looking for a standard style, if exist.
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How to cite a senior project in BibTeX
I want to cite a senior project of a student in my thesis. However, I don't really have much information about the student.
I know, the title of his work, his name, his university and the link to the ...
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How to cite ACM Computing Classification System?
In the research I'm doing for my master thesis I use the ACM Computing Classification System (2012 edition).
I mean I literally use the data they provide as an RDF graph. How should I cite this ...
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Is possible cite an internet site (of an academical project) with the authors
I am writing a paper about a project.
I must cite the internet site of the project with the results.
Question: can I cite, not only the site, but also the authors in the references?
NOTE The site ...
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What is a good system for generating BibTeX reference keys?
When using a reference manager (or even when tracking references on a handwritten draft), it is common to have a key for each entry when referring to items, which the computer (or you in a final form) ...
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Should I keep all my .bib files in a single folder, or one with each .tex file?
Self-explanatory. I would be most interested to hear from researchers who have published a fair amount, decided one way or the other wasn't working for them, so switched — and why.
Related advice / ...
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How should I cite a publication where the author(s) are anonymous (but the organization is not)?
I'd like to cite the following articles from "Scientific Data" (a journal from the Nature Publishing Group), but no authors are mentioned (as far as I can tell):
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015....
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How to represent and cite a patent using BibTeX?
I need to cite some patents for a paper in BibTeX format. Google Patents provide me a BibTeX like this one:
@misc{spangler1988method,
title={Method and system for measurement of road profile},
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Should I add a bibliography for this?
While writing up my introduction for my transfer report (first year exam of the PhD in the UK) I want to give importance to the topic saying something like:
It lead to huge research, being N amount ...
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