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How should I cite a labor union CBA in Turabian style?
I need to cite a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiated between a labor union (United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555) and an employer (Fred Meyer Stores, Inc., a subsidiary of ...
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How to initial an author's name that contains nobiliary particles and articles
When an author's name contains something like "van der", "de la", etc, and you wish to initial the author's first/middle names (all but surname) in a reference, how do you deal ...
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How long should a direct quote be in order to be put in quotation marks?
Let's suppose there is a short definition in a source and that I want to report such definition in a paper but adapting the initial wording to the sentence.
For instance
Definition: a bottle is a ...
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Help with referencing a summarized data from multiple sources into one single reference
What would be the best way to reference the following case:
I have taken some reported financial figures from the annual reports ranging from 2017 to 2023 of 5 different companies. Using those ...
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"First et al.", many authors with same surname, and IEEE citations
I'm describing an evolution of ideas like this:
Wang et al. suggested quantizing the ReLU function [1]. Later, Wang
et al. extended that method by shifting the function base [2]. In
contrast, Wang et ...
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For citations, Should I use the citation of the mentioned name or the journal it was in?
An article I want to cite mentiones an author and has paraphrased a sentence. I would like to refer to that sentence but I'm not sure who to reference in the in-text citation: the author of the ...
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CSL style following APA 7th Edition and providing a superscript and a full footnote for every citation
Is there a CSL (Citation Style Language) style that follows APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition, and provides a superscript and a full footnote reference for every citation? An ...
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How to best cite a series of equations?
This question kind of sits at the intersection of academia, math and latex stackexchange.
In my (mathematics) master's thesis, I am trying to cite a series of equtions like this (this may be a bit ...
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Why does Google Scholar omit the publishers and editors in chapter citations?
I've noticed, at least in my own research, it seems to regularly do this with few exceptions.
When trying to use Google Scholar's cite feature on a chapter of an edited volume, it gives a reduced ...
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I am citing from a paper which confused the word "affective" and "affectionate", what should I do?
I understand that with minor spelling mistakes you use [sic] or just [brackets]. However, in this case, I think the author accidentally wrote the wrong word.
It looks odd to write affect[ionat]e and ...
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Would I italicize a treaty in Chicago style? [closed]
For example;
War crimes, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
OR
War crimes, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
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(MLA) Citing from a collection of published letters
I have a book of published letters as one of my sources and am trying to figure out how to properly cite a handful of these letters in MLA format.
The book: The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Harvard ...
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Use of colon and other symbols in citation
I'm currently working on a uni assignment regarding a piece of academic work, but I'm confused about some of the punctuation and symbols used in citations. 1) Consider this extract: "“phenomena ...
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When to add "in proceedings" and when to not in references
I have two papers whose citation look like this:
Elhabbash, A., Nundloll, V., Elkhatib, Y., Blair, G. S., and Marco, V.
S. (2020). An ontological architecture for principled and automated
system of ...
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Can Google Scholar capture citations without arXiv DOI
I had a paper uploaded to arXiv. Today I noticed there are two new papers citing my paper with the correct title and author names but both without my arXiv DOI. This is because they use @misc format ...
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How do you cite in MLA? (I've forgotten)
Am I supposed to cite with quotations around the author's name, or quotations then the author's name. (I felt like this was obvious but I've seen multiple people site differently, and one of them has ...
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How to cite a chapter in an edited book with a unique translator for that chapter using Chicago Style?
I'm using Chicago Style 17th edition, author-date system. I'm trying to cite a chapter from an edited book, but every chapter has a different translator.
Chicago Manual says that for edited books, the ...
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Citation style that writes X-Y if citations are inserted in row
I typically use reference managers to handle my citations automatically and insert them in text in the IEEE style:
This is a statement backed by research [1], [2], [3].
However, in the case where ...
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When do you include the nth in front of the conference when citing?
This question is easiest to ask by showing an example. There are conferences that are cited like 5th International Conference on ABC and some like Interational Conference on XYZ.
Why are some ...
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Which date (received, accepted, published) is relevant when citing a paper?
I want to cite this article in my thesis. Which date should I to use in my bibliography? At the beginning of the article, there are three dates
Received 28 April 2021
Accepted: 5 November 2021
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Complicated citation of sources
I am writing an essay and have to use the Chicago 17th edition notes and bibliography style.
One of my sources is a book. Within the book is a collection of 30 historical documents. Some of these ...
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Citing the preface of a book written by a different author in ASA
As the title says, I'm trying to cite the preface of a book. The book is a new edition, and the preface was written by a different author. How do I cite that in ASA style? The closest I can think of ...
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How often do you have to cite a source when stating that you follow someone's work at the beginning of the section?
I am writing my thesis at this point and I have some sections, which started as follows:
Throughout this section we follow \cite[Section 3.2.1]{...} for solving ...
I am wondering whether I have to ...
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How to in-text cite a paragraph in APA format
I have the following paragraph:
This incident was part of a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War. These two nations had different ideologies. The United ...
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How can I identify the citation/reference style used when I have the citation/reference itself?
How can I identify the citation/reference style used when I have the citation/reference itself?
Is there a tool that can help with identifying/matching the style to my plain-text input?
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Is this citation for reference correct? (APA 7th edition)
Is the citation in APA 7th edition format correct for this technical report?
Citation:
Servan-Schreiber, D., Cleeremans, A., & McClelland, J. L. (1988). Encoding sequential structure in simple ...
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How do you cite an image taken from Amazon.com?
I need to cite an image from amazon.com, but there isn't really an author/date.
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When to capitalize the beginning of a quotation?
So I know (now) that if you quote a complete sentence and this sentence is syntactically set off from the rest of your sentence with a comma etc, one has to (according to the Turabian) capitalize the ...
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What's the generally accepted way to cite a generated report?
I am working on a paper that includes numerous graphs that were generated by an analytics system. These graphs are uniquely generated based on specific criteria I provided, but I did not collect the ...
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Quoting/Citing Footnotes in APA
When directly quoting from a footnote, I have sometimes seen authors indicate this by including something along the lines of "n", "fn.", "footnote 2", etc. in their ...
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What is the APA7 style for a translated quotation?
My field is in the humanities, and I need to quote a long passage (around 40 words) written in French inside of a paper I write in English.
Naturally, I would like to quote a (personally) translated-...
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What referencing style is this?
My school has provided me with a referencing system but has not stated where it is from. I would prefer to use an online tool such as MyBib however, I don't know what my school's referencing system is....
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What's the name of this citation style?
I am working on a research paper, and the journal I am submitting to requires a specific citation style for references. However, I am having trouble finding the correct format for one of my references ...
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How do you document in ASA style a journal that the first page is the cover page?
I am citing the article Solving the Mystery of Military Mental Health: A Call to Action from this link.
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/solving-mystery-military-mental-health-call-action
My ...
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How to cite one volume of a book which has been published in different volumes (APA 7)?
How to cite one volume of book which has been published in different volumes, following the APA 7 guidelines?
Imagine the 3 volumes of the book Quantum Theory of Fields by Steven Weinberg were ...
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Citing a lecture
I recently attended a talk and the talk was recorded and posted to YouTube, and the slides are available on the author's webpage. I would like to cite this talk in some work I am doing, and there are ...
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How to cite the author of an image if you're using numbers for citation?
Like instead of saying: "image taken from [1]"
Is there a better way?
I'm using Zotero linked to Overleaf. Just in case this information is somehow relevant.
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How should you cite yourself when there are more than 15 authors?
I am not one of the primary authors of the article, and there are more than 15 authors for the paper I am referring to.
How should I include the paper in my CV? Should all authors be cited? How can I ...
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Placing in-text citations close to quote or avoid in-text citation redudancy?
I am converting a paper from numeric citations to the Springer template (with in-text citations) and am not sure how to cite when a quote is at the end of a sentence:
A: Roy et al (2019) did ...
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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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Is there a way to cite two articles which share some authors in a single sentence?
I want to cite a pair of articles using in-text citations and they share some of the authors between them.
Does there exist any acceptable way to do this by joining them in a single sentence?
A MWE ...
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If watch a video about a book do I need to cite the book as well?
I watched a video recently about a book (Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"), and I am going to use that video as a source in a paper I am writing. Do I need to cite ...
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What is the correct way of citing with et al. using IEEE citation style
I have seen many authors cite in scientific research papers as follows:
First_author's_last_name et al.[10]
Another_first_author's_last_name et al. [15]
I have also seen some papers refer to popular ...
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How do I cite a translation of a classical author (greek philosopher) in my thesis
I want to cite a quote by Seneca at the start of my economics thesis:
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Here is an ...
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Why is it that sometimes in bibliography, DOI information is added?
When I'm casually browsing through bibliography section of preprints, sometimes I find that an author will also include the DOI information in the citation.
For example, I just picked a random Arxiv ...
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Is my citation error considered as plagiarism?
Briefly speaking, I recently found out that my graduate research paper has some citation errors. Which is really poor citations.
I cited a wrong author name (author A) for a sentence which actually ...
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How/where to cite corrigendum publication on CV?
Citations for my publications on my CV are listed in reverse chronological order, and I am wondering how/where to list the citation for a corrigendum.
Should I list the corrigendum and original ...
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How to cite a military tribunal?
I would like to cite
The United States of America v. Otto Ohlendorf et al: Opinion and
Judgment and Sentence’, Military Tribunal, No. 2, 9 April 1948
I am not sure the right way to do this. I ...
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Consecutive sentence citation in Chicago date-author style
I am writing a paper in which I repeat a newspaper article citation.
"The New York Times article discusses the introduction of the AFB mainframe computer (Stevens, 1984). During an interview with ...
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How to cite a SSRN paper in master thesis?
How should I cite a paper which I found on https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2580904? In my references, the citation appears like this:
Hayes, A. (2015). A cost of production model ...
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