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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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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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Is there a simple way to bulk download a large number of papers from a list of references
I've got a library of 1200 references I'm using for a systematic review. Now I need to download the PDFs of all these references, which will take days if I do it manually. Is there a simple way to ...
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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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Tools to easily navigate references in research papers
Often times while reading academic papers, I need to check the citations referred to in the text, and so I naturally end up scrolling to the last page of the paper, finding the appropriate citation, ...
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How to batch download papers from a reference list without DOI?
I'm looking to download some papers from a reference list in an Excel file which consisted of all the basic info about a paper (e.g., author, year, title, publication, etc.) but unfortunately not the ...
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Does moving references in Mendeley affect its citations in MS Word? [closed]
I want to organise references in Mendeley (moving them in folders, etc.). Does this process will affect my recent citations in MS Word?
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How to adjust Mendeley to get the specific style?
I normally use Mendeley for citing references in my research work. Normally, It will be like that, which is under American Sociological Association 6th Edition style.
Neuhaus, J. M., L. Sticher, F. ...
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Is there a tool for finding common references among multiple papers?
My question is relatively straightforward. Is there a tool that takes multiple papers, reads through them and figures out which other papers these input papers refer to, and see the most commonly ...
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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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What is “duly identified” in the case of preparation research proposal?
I am going to prepare a research proposal, and I have observed the following statement which I do not understand. Can you help me understand what it means?
All text, paragraphs or textual phrases ...
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Where can I download the list of references listed in a paper?
I would like to retrieve the references listed in a paper, as a RIS file or any format that I can import in my reference manager.
Is there a way to do that?
I can retrieve the list of papers which ...
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Citing the results of other peoples experiment in my own work
I'm doing a research for my bachelor degree final project and it contains no experiments.
I found a paper which has published results of an experiment and their data and images/diagrams are so ...
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Co-citation analysis of my library?
I just realized that the co-citation analysis is a very handy tool, especially at the initial stage of the research. There are many software available that do the co-citation and bibliographic ...
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How to view similar articles from a Zotero collection?
Recently I moved from Mendeley to Zotero. In Mendeley I liked that once in a while they sent me article recommendations based on my library. I would like to know how I could manage to achieve ...
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Does this citation style have a name?
I was asked to turn a set of references into the following citation format:
[Qin2014] Z. Qin, G. Denker, C. Giannelli, P. Bellavista and N.
Venkatasubramanian, “A software defined networking ...
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Mendeley: how to add document from bibliography entry?
I'm starting to write my bachelor thesis. It's my first time ever using citation software to manage the citations in the document and to generate the bibliography at the end of the document. So bear ...
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A paper is published in a book, conference and its proceedings, should I cite it as book, conference or conference proceeding paper?
I use Mendeley reference manager and sometimes import articles from browser to my Mendeley Library using browser extension. Import is totally fine but I am having two confusions after importing:
Some ...
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Author-Date style with Mendeley citation manager
I have recently started using Mendeley Desktop with Microsoft Word. I am using the Author-Date style of citation and have encountered some difficulties. I'm hoping someone has a solution. Here are the ...
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Is there an online engine like Google Scholar which allows me to sort the papers by citation count?
I could not find a way of sorting the list of relevant publications on Google Scholar on the number of citations. It would help a lot as I prefer to start reading well-cited references before moving ...
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Import RIS from zotero to Mendeley while maintaining folder structure
I am trying to export my Zotero library and importing into Mendeley. However, I would like to preserve the folder structure. I cannot seem to do it. Is this possible?
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Can you export a bibtex file from zotero with links?
I have most of the papers I use often in Zotero. Before I learnt about it, I would always format my manually typed citations with \href and company such that you could click on the reference and go to ...
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Are there reference managers which can develop/build library of references without importing/downloading PDF files in a personal collection?
In a situation where one has PDFs which one would like to have a library of references for, I notice that reference management providers (specifically Mendeley and Endnote) require that these PDF ...
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Is there a way to save a webpage page with Mendeley Webimporter?
We can save references from the page, but it will be great to save the entire page. As it may happen to the page is not accessible anymore later.
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Listing all papers which cite my references [closed]
I would like generate a list of all papers which cite my references, sorted by most recent. In other words I want all papers which are "2 publications away" from mine, which cite the references in my ...
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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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Zotero: referencing multi-word organisations like "World Bank" so that it's not, "Bank, World" [closed]
I'm using Zotero to manage references, and I've manually inputed a reference to:
World Bank. 2019. "World Development Indicators." URL: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-...
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Changing citation reference systems
I am writing a research paper for the first time and I submitted my paper to a journal, in which the references in my paper were addressed in parentheses, as follows:
".....be preferentially located ...
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Google Scholar: Where/How to send Emails to make corrections to them? [duplicate]
It looks to me that various articles of mine have huge parts of missing citations from various published papers from other people. For example, by checking adsabs.harvard.edu, I find many more ...
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What's the easiest way to get a references section into a single citation format if they vary to begin with?
I have a ~5 page references section with citations added by various authors in varying formats. What's the easiest way to get them all into the same format?
The two options I see are to do it ...
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Mendeley Harvard reference format [closed]
Does anyone know where I can find a correct Harvard reference format to upload on Mendeley Desktop and use it with the Mendeley Word plug-in?
It seems that the ones available are not correct.
Thanks
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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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How to find a list of all articles published by a particular journal?
My colleagues and I are looking into ways to get a list of all articles published for the history of a given journal. Primarily, we are looking to for a list that includes title, authors, year, ...
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What is a concise citation format for grant proposals given constraints on page counts?
Many grant applications have page limits. They also often allow the writer to chose their preferred format for references.
Thus, I was wondering:
What is a good concise referencing system that ...
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How to find the Endnote template for CJPH submission?
I have been searching and trying out to find the Endnote citation style to match the one required for the Canadian Journal of Public Health submission for hours, with no success.
It demonstrated that ...
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Best search bibliographic database [closed]
I was evaluating Jabref and found it has a bibliography web search tool.
You can choose among:
ACM Portal
Arxiv
Crossref
DBLP
DOAJ
GVK
Google Scholar
IEEEXplore
Inspire
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How to see how many times a document has been cited?
I'm working on my thesis and I'd like to see if some documents that I'll use have been used before to see if the topic and focus I'm working on has been done before. At the moment it seems it hasn't, ...
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Reference manager that sorts by number of citations
This question is related to: How to sort search results from SCOPUS or Web of Knowledge by number of citation in a specific field?
but a little bit different.
Is there a citation manager that keeps ...
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Need a good, inexpensive app to catalogue journal articles and books [closed]
Like the title says, I'm looking for an inexpensive app or program that can catalogue both journal articles and books. I need something that has or can take input from an ISBN/QR/barcode scanner, and ...
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Is it acceptable to cite people without putting the appropriate diacritics in their names?
I've begun preparing my thesis and several key papers in my field are written by people with foreign accents in their names. While I have found a way to include this in my thesis with BibTeX. However ...
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Quotation/reference manager for print books
What is an effective and efficient system for storing quotes and notes from print books to be retrieved later?
When we read books and articles in electronic format there are easy ways to mark quotes ...
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How to cite USGS website refereing Landsat accuracy?
I want to cite the official Geometric accuracy of the Landsat imagery, published by USGS on their website http://landsat.usgs.gov/geometry.php. The citation is suggested for a scientific journal.
I ...
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Reference manager with note-taking/quote-storing capabilities
I'm looking for a reference manager with note-taking/quote-storing capabilities. I don't need a full knowledge management suite, but I want to find a program where I can store and search long notes/...
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Visualising connections between scientific papers [duplicate]
So i just began to write my literature review and have a big bunch of research papers saved in a folder.
Is there a tool that would help me visualize the references between those papers saved in my ...
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What's the best way to share a Zotero collection (without creating a new "group" collection) [closed]
I've got a large Zotero library split into several large collections. I know that I'm able to share collections by creating a group in Zotero and then creating a collection within that group. Is it ...
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How to download references to database that a paper includes and all articles that cite the paper?
I have some papers for which I want to somehow download an easily manipulated (CSV, Excel) list of references and list of papers which cited the given paper.
On Google Scholar, one can see a "Cited ...
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How to export references from Endnote web to Endnote X5?
I understand that Endnote X7 has the Sync feature to sync with the Endnote Web. But for some reason, the Sync is not working and my program is just getting stuck. So I have decided to use Endnote X5. ...
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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 to stop Endnote omitting the year for some references?
I am having problems with Endnote outputting a mix of citation styles (or possibly a broken citation style!) in the same document, despite applying the Endnote Frontiers Science style (official, from ...
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