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Is it possible to use Mendeley to produce chapter notes without a citation?
Is it possible to use Mendeley to insert sequential text chapter notes without a citation?
For example:
Chapter text
Lorem ipsum dolor [1] sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod [2] ...
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Reusing a codebook/technique in a new publication
I have published a paper, hereby referred as "the first paper", where I lay out a conceptual framework that categorises and evaluates, let's say, policies. This article got published with a ...
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How to deal with "cans of worms" of references in publications
I have found an algorithm that solved a puzzle in an unexpected way, so I'm planning to publish it on arXiv.
After some online research I learned that the puzzle belongs to a larger class of more or ...
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How do you cite an entire magazine/periodical?
I have a class where I am supposed to talk about advertising in magazines, and I can't find any information on how to cite the entire magazine/periodical. I have to talk about the trends I generally ...
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What do I do if I cant find a proper basis for my methods of experimentation?
I am currently a senior high school student whose study is about producing homemade paper using coconut husks and testing for their certain properties. However, most studies that I have come across ...
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How to Properly Reference Equation Steps from Source X in Your Work?
I want to avoid writing something like:
However, calculating the variable X and solving this equation requires iteration using the Newton-Raphson method [22, p. 45][15, p. 152]:
"equation"
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ChatGPT-alike for local abundant PDFs
I have a lot of PDF files collected using such tools as Mendeley or Zotero (thousands of files). I want to use ChatGPT-like to ask questions based on these PDF files (for example: "What is the ...
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Which software can check on false references and incorrect citation on student papers?
I'm a TA at a medium-sized university in Asia, and as part of my routine, I randomly review student papers before using Turnitin for plagiarism checks. During these reviews, I've come across numerous ...
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Should I reproduce figures from other publications in my thesis to make it more self-contained?
I am working on a computer science master's thesis wherein I occasionally cite figures and tables from other works. Currently, the way I am doing this is something like
Foo et al. (2021) visualise ...
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How should I include substantial background definitions and notation from another paper?
For my new paper, I need to use the notation and definitions of another paper that I wrote in 2019. The notation and definitions take about 3 pages.
I really don't know what to do. Can I copy and ...
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What are the ins and outs of submitting two related papers that need to cite each other to the same or different journals? Potential pitfalls? [duplicate]
I'm currently in the middle of some calculations and modeling for two related but different papers on experimental and data analysis mathematical techniques, and have started drafting two papers.
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Can I use equations from a paper with proper citation?
I am writing a research paper where I try to produce the results by using the machinery described in a different paper, i.e. testing their equations on my model.
Is it justified to use their equations ...
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Referencing in a paper
When referencing in a paper or a thesis, is there a convention to put a reference immediately after the word or separate them by a space? So for example do you have '... FTIR-spectroscopy[1]' or '... ...
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Suitable citation style for dealing with many de-identified sources, interviews and personal correspondence?
Background:
I am writing a paper analysing various organisations that I need to de-identify.
For my analysis I need to cite three types of sources:
Publicly available published works that identify ...
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Quoting a book whose title contains a racial slur
I'm writing a paper on the Front de Liberation du Quebec; a homegrown Quebec terrorist organisation in the 1960s. As research, I've extensively studied a book by one of the intellectual leaders of the ...
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Where should I place the citation in this sentence?
I have the following sentence, where the citation refers to the first part of the sentence. Because of how it appears in the formatting of my paper, and how it reads, I would like to have the citation ...
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How to properly cite (and write a paragraph) that a paper is based upon another paper but proposes different contribution?
I have a paper A which is already published. Now I want to write paper B which will use data from the same expirement conducted in A but with results which were not mentioned in paper A.
Basically, ...
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Should I include all relative publications in my manuscript?
I am a PhD candidate and when i'm writing a manuscript for a conference or journal i have the same question. Let's say my manuscript is about a topic A.
When i'm doing my bibliographic research i find ...
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How should I cite the ministry in my own country in APA?
In my research paper, I have cite from a curriculum published by the Ministry of Education in my country. Should I cite the name of the ministry in my own language (i.e. Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı; MEB as ...
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What facts constitutes as citation-worthy
If I were to state a fact that is simply a part of a field, do I need to cite a scientific article that supports this? Like, let's say I write something like this:
"... tryptamine being a ...
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Do you have to cite your own pre-print?
I am writing a paper that is based on previous work I have done that I have published as a pre-print. I am submitting it to a conference. However it is significantly improved and different. The ...
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Is it bad-practice to have a high citation to content ratio in academic writing? [duplicate]
I'm writing a high school history textbook. While writing my book, I'm finding its becoming very heavily laden with sources. If I used Turabian's footnote style, they tend to fill half the page. ...
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Writing an Original State of the Art Section When There Are Recent (Meta-)Surveys for the Topic
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In many fields, it is customary that every paper has a section describing the state of the art of the field, to give a background and show familiarity with related works. While sometimes, this ...
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How important is it to cite the earliest report of something?
As a general rule I try to put in some due diligence to cite the authors who first provided strong evidence of something that I'm referencing, even if I wasn't aware of their work before I started ...
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Is a higher amount of literature cited in an essay generally seen as better?
I'm a postgraduate M.Sc. student at a university studying math. Currently I need to write some essay/assignment (about 10 pages) for a seminar where we revisit already published work and describe it ...
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What to do when your idea turns out to be an old one
I learned yesterday that an idea (let's call it Idea A) I came up with on my own and that will appear in a paper I'm writing actually appeared in a paper 15 years ago. (My field is math, I'm a PhD ...
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Plagiarism and credible sources
Plagiarism is the reuse of other's materials without proper credit and acknowledgement [1]
Credible sources are vaguely defined, but it can be attributed to verifiable facts in the literature [2]
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Can I reference a result on a dataset without any research paper by that author as state of the art?
The best result on a given dataset has no trace in the form of
research paper or any sort of analysis.
We have no idea whose results were those, or what method was created.
Some competition was held,...
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Which could be considered an appropriate number of self-citations?
I am currently writing a paper that cites other works authored by me. I was wondering which percentage of self-citations is recommendable in a journal paper.
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Is there a way to see which papers have used a particular R package?
I'm a new user of an R package (tidy text mining) and I'd like to see what papers have used this package as examples for the kind of things I can do with it. Is there a way to do this?
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Is my text lacking of citations?
I've started my Masters in Computer Science this year and i'm facing some questions about citations. Papers and dissertations i've seen so far have a lot of citations even for the most basic subjects. ...
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Do I cite both sources in the following scenario?
When you have sources X and Y that are similar in content/relay similar ideas, but only choose to use source X in an essay, and then summarize/paraphrase source X, but have source Y on your mind while ...
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When writing the paper about completed experiments, should you cite work you hadn't read before?
I (try to) do research in Computer Science/Deep Learning. I recently did some work developing a novel idea and am writing a paper on it. I have only written one paper before, and I'm currently being ...
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Can I use an Encyclopedia as a reference in an essay?
I am writing a paper that is about another culture. I need to include references about the culture in my paper. Is an encyclopedia an acceptable source for general information about the culture (...
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To what extent should relevant background be discussed vs. just referenced?
Is is perfectly appropriate to refer reviewers to other papers for understanding a concept or writer must include the concept in his paper too?
What should be done while keeping brevity, plagiarism ...
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How to write source information for tables if I'm using data from multiple sources?
I am using data from 3-4 different sources in my table. How to cite the source information in MLA format? As far as I know, Source information is written below tables in the MLA style. But is it okay ...
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Should a citation be included when answering a question regarding a specific source?
For example, "How do the six types of shenanigans relate to the ethical use of a flux capacitor according to Smith and Smith?" (Smith and Smith are authors of the textbook). For this type of ...
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Where do I place citations
I'm writing a math paper using TexShop that is almost entirely original but I got help with a trig proof; I found a formula in a book that I improved upon, and then got help finding a number series ...
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If I wanted to quote a joke from a website in verbatim in a formal academic essay, how would I do that?
The assignment is to evaluate humor in movies. I am unsure how to incorporate a joke quote in there. Would it be classified as plagiarism?
Quote: “I have an Epi-Pen. My friend gave it to me as he ...
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How do I properly cite a research paper?
I know this question already has a similar answer but, please bear with me. I am writing my thesis and I realize there are cases I do not know how to properly cite, as illustrated in the following ...
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APA location/address of publisher vs location of conference
I need some clarification of the parameter location specified in the APA manual regarding papers published in the proceedings of conferences. Virtually all online data banks for papers that I came ...
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Are you required to trace back information on a subject to first publication for a citation on it?
If there is a tree of papers on or involving X, all of which give a brief introduction to X and I need a citation for my use of X, do I need to give the root of the tree as a citation of X or can I ...
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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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What is the Latin term "pace" used for when referencing other scholars?
I frequently come across references to other scholars like:
In period P, syntactic construct C did not have function F (pace Smith 2000).
I understand that pace here signals that Smith (2000) ...
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Can I use any book as a source?
I am writing a research paper (graduate level) on eating disorders. Many books have been written on this topic, ranging from pop culture type to scholarly works.
How do I know if a book is ...
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Convince coauthors of reducing self-citations
I am writing a paper jointly with coauthors from another research group. In their contributions to the paper they include a lot of self-citations, many of which are (in my opinion) irrelevant.
How ...
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How to reference to a statement that itself is referenced by a paper other than original paper? [duplicate]
When I read a statement in a paper that is itself derived from another paper, how should I reference it when I use it in my own article? Should I reference the original article or the second article, ...
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How to Use a Result Already Under Review in Another Paper?
This may apply to any mathematical scientists. I am working on a paper, which (as far as I can tell) needs a result that I obtained. The result needed is a part of another paper of mine that is ...
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Properly cite a document from the WHO assembly
I want to cite a document from this years WHO World Health Assembly. The document in question can be found by clicking on "Main Documents" on their page and then selecting the document with the title ...
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How to decide on what citation format to use when writing on legal history?
I am an amateur historian who is considering writing a book about the history of Treason in the United States. I have a dilemma with how to format citations.
The book, by nature of being history of ...
