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Is strict adherence to a citation format really necessary in actual research?
In high school and college I remember whenever doing some research for a class, my English teacher then will look at the citation at the end and use a red pen to mark out any place where MLA format is ...
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I spotted a paper with an absurd amount of self citations. Is this normal?
I spotted a paper with around 106 citations, around which 86 are just the author citing himself. Now I understand that people do this to work on their previous studies, but 86? That's around just 20 ...
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Is it ethical/ correct to cite a confidential document/ paper (under NDA)?
Each paper should be able to provide enough evidence that its claims are correct. Nowadays, where the number of joint industry-university projects grows exponentially, many confidential documents ...
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Citational nationalism: citing only groups within the same country
This is a trend that I have noticed more and more over the years as a reviewer for a number of journals: a group of authors from country X submits a manuscript, where the vast majority (if not all) of ...
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I spotted a paper which has six pages worth of plagiarism: should I report it to the editor of the journal?
I spotted a 2019 paper which literally copy-pastes paragraphs from a 2011 paper and doesn't cite them. The author (who is different than the 2011 paper's) claims that as their own research paper. ...
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How to identify the publications that cite two specific papers?
Finding the citations of any particular paper is straightforward.
But how do you identify the set of publications that cite two specific papers?
The reason I am asking this is because I am trying ...
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How to cite lecture notes? (and should I even do this?)
When learning a new subject, I would frequently use lecture notes found somewhere in the Internet. When writing a paper (or a master thesis, as in my case, but the rules should be similar, I believe) ...
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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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Best practices for citing a reference you've found an error in
I am writing a mathematics paper and citing a particular reference in a peer-reviewed mathematical journal. It turns out that the result I reference is ultimately correct, but the proof has an error ...
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Visualization tool for paper citations
Does anyone know if there is a tool that takes a paper (pdf) and is able to produce a directed graph of the citations, and if possible take the papers that are cited and use the citations of those ...
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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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My co-author is claiming to be the sole author. How should I handle it?
When I was a graduate student in the 1980s, I translated a treatise written by an important artist into English. A person who at the time was an assistant professor approached me about it. Flattered ...
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Paper rejected due to short reference list
Recently I submitted a paper to a journal and I got the following feedback from the Editorial Office:
The reference lists of manuscripts submitted to our journal should include a variety of English-...
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Should I cite the latest edition of a book?
Before publication, if a new edition of a source is released, should I try and find the new edition or keep a citation based on the old?
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As a non-academic, how do I find papers that reference a certain article?
I have recently read an interesting article on number theory, published in a well-known mathematics journal. As a keen amateur mathematician, I have tried to develop some of the ideas presented in the ...
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Could/Should I cite a paper that I am refereeing?
I'm reviewing the paper X related to the topic Y for a conference which is single-blind (in Computer Science). Also, I'm about to submit a paper to a different conference related to the same topic (...
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How can I encourage my advisor to adopt better work practices?
I'm a second year PhD student. In general I love my advisor, but recently we've run into some small bumps in the road while working on a paper together. He's controlling the "master" copy and I send ...
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How should I cite something learned second-hand (eg, from Wikipedia) when I haven't seen the primary source?
I want to cite something that I have learned from a Wikipedia page. However, I'm loathe to cite Wikipedia because of the perception of it by my tutors, so I try to cite the original source.
What ...
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How should you refer to yourself in a paper?
When writing a paper that discusses previous work by the same set of authors, what is the correct way to refer to it?
For example,
"In 2012 Fred et al. introduced a third way of resolving the ...
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Is it permitted to cite works by members of my own family, in classwork?
I'm starting a unit (undergraduate class) at my university which deals very much with topics researched by my grandfather - He has written a number of books and papers on the issue.
I don't yet know ...
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Should bad prior work be ignored, or cited and criticised?
A high citation rate is desirable in academia. Citing other work doesn't cost much, so citations are cheap to give but desirable to get. That brings me to the question:
If a previous article ...
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How do I start a priority dispute?
I'm hoping to get advice on this issue. Here's a rough chronology:
A few years ago, I published a method on arXiv and presented it at a few conferences. I tried publishing the work in a journal, but ...
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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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How to use results/ideas from a paper I reviewed?
I recently reviewed a paper (general applied mathematics context). During the review, I realized that the fairly general ideas introduced in the paper can potentially be applied to a specific problem ...
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How to correctly cite a retracted paper?
I would like to cite a particular paper that has been retracted, due to a specific error the authors have initially overseen in their analysis.
Because this specific error is the subject of my ...
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Why cite the access time of a URL if half the URLs become dead anyways?
What is the actual goal of citing the "access date/time" of when you access a URL? For example:
Bruce Bower (July 17, 2010). "Serbian site may have hosted first copper makers". ...
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Should I cite non-peer reviewed work that helped in my research in a peer-reviewed publication?
Specifically, I want to cite a blog post in a peer reviewed paper. The post was extremely helpful towards how I formulated the problem. The blog was not breaking-edge research; more a re-write of ...
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Do famous works of literature need citations?
Specifically, in a scholarly paper on philosophy of math I want to mention Mo Yan’s novel Red Sorghum Clan. It is just as an example of literature, not quoted and not used for any specific purpose.
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How to find DOI for article in JSTOR?
I have a link to an article on JSTOR. I can't see the DOI mentioned. Is there a standard way to find the DOI? Do all articles on JSTOR have an assigned DOI?
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Is it illegal to cite books that were illegally downloaded or accessed from a library?
How illegal is it to cite books that were illegally downloaded?
If they aren't available in the university library, if you can't really afford the books (maybe you will make one reference in one ...
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Is all research connected via citations?
When looking at the paper-is-cited-by-paper binary relation in an undirected manner: Is all research connected to each other or will there be many connected components?
In other words: Is there a way ...
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How long does it take for a citation to show up online?
How long does it take for a cited paper to show up online? I can see a couple of papers that were cited very recently and the papers containing those citations are currently online since a week or two....
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How to cite Kindle books/ebooks when no fixed page numbers are available?
I got the following info from the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide website in relation to citing Kindle books or ebooks.
If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or ...
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How to cite an answer in StackExchange? [duplicate]
I will use this proof in manuscript. It is clearly plagiarism if I just write down the proof and do not cite the original content.
However, how do I cite an answer in StackExchange? It is neither a ...
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What is the average number of articles written per author in a year and has it increased recently?
Did anyone research the data about scientific productivity? I.e. what is the average number of articles written by author in a year in a specific field? I am referring to average, since this is maybe ...
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Best practices for organizing digital and physical articles
As a thirsty graduate student, I've amassed a burgeoning collection of research articles in both paper and digital formats. Right now I manage PDFs and references with Zotero, but I'm still searching ...
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How can I improve my paper with mostly original contents and only two references?
I'm collaborating with another person on a public-key cryptosystem that we intend to publish. I could only think of two references (one to the 1976 Diffie-Hellman paper, and one to SHA-3 FIPS-202), ...
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Letting another author know I'm using one of their results
Let's say I write a paper and use a result from someone that is rarely cited. Would it be polite/acceptable/unacceptable to email them and let them know of my application of their result before ...
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Can I cite a URL only instead of author, title, etc. in a research paper?
When writing a thesis, is it acceptable practice to cite only the URL of referenced research papers where they are published electronically? Or is it compulsory to give proper authors, title, year of ...
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Can a personal meeting with a scientist be referenced?
Suppose I meet a scholar at my university or some other institute, who is a famous person known for his or her work. and I ask questions related to the subject I am working on, and I get some answers ...
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If authors leave out diacritics, should I correct them or leave it as written?
While preparing a bibliography, I have noticed that some authors' journal titles have not used diacritics correctly. For example, some authors have written "Miguel Angel Asturias" in their titles ...
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Do we cite results in Arxiv which are obviously wrong?
I am now writing up a math paper, and there is an Arxiv paper posted back in 2009 which proved a weaker version of my result. But I don’t think their paper will be published in any journal – their ...
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Do I cite introductory material in a subject that helped me indirectly?
I am writing my undergrad Bachelor's thesis in computational physics where I do C++ programming. In some C++ books, I read some things that were quite useful during programming, but they do not have a ...
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Not citing code libraries used for paper
I'm submitting a paper to a CS conference, where I've just got the feedback from my professor. He wants to delete the few lines citing the implementation libraries such as sk-learn as well as more ...
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Is it a common practice for reviewers to recommend their own papers in the review?
I am reviewing a paper on a topic on which I have published some work previously as an author. While going through this current paper as a reviewer, I felt I could recommend my paper on the similar ...
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I am not getting academic credit for code I have written for my PhD, when it was later used in other research. Should I complain?
During my PhD, I developed a data analysis code. My PI encouraged its development, expecting it to stay within the research group. The code was used in some published papers and gained attention when ...
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Should student or supervisor be corresponding author for publications based on student research?
Papers published from an academic project (MSc or PhD) usually have two authors; the first author is the student who mainly conducted the research, and the second author is the professor who ...
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Why does information need a citation, but an image needs a credit line?
I am using some images from the National Archives in my article, and it is my understanding they are in the public domain. I wrote to the National Archives requesting confirmation on usage rights and ...
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If a reference is no longer publicly available, should you include the proofs of the results you cite from it?
I am writing a math paper and planning to cite 1-2 results from a non-published preprint article that I had found online a couple years ago. The original link to the document no longer works, since it ...
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When citing an arXiv paper, what year should one write?
A paper on arXiv can have multiple versions. It is rather frequent (at least in math) that the first version and the latest version are even from different years. When citing such a paper, is it ...
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