Questions tagged [citation-style]
On the syntax and formatting of citations and reference lists according to a particular style guide (e.g., Chicago, MLA, IEEE, APA) or in general.
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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
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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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Abbreviating nicknames in quotes in a bibliography
Suppose that we have a citation style in which given names of authors are abbreviated in the bibliography, that is, either
Smith, A. B.: An interesting observation.
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A. B. Smith: An interesting ...
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Concise way to add a citation showing closely-related effects that result from one of a list of cited examples for a trend?
I have a parenthetical serial list of citations that demonstrate support for a claim I make prior to the parenthetical list.
X has been shown to impact Y (e.g., Mo 1900, Larry 1920, Curly 1950).
I ...
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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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Citing 2 nearly identical article names from the newspaper, APA 7th edition
I seem to be at an edge case. I have two websites to cite, NYT Report Card NCF and NYT Report Card YU
They are both effectively from the same "article", drawing on data from This project ...
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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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Convert reference to a specific style online
Is there any online tool to convert references to a specific style (of a journal)? Preferably, it is better that no Latex knowledge is needed!
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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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Incorporating hyperlinks into the body of an APA 7 paper
I'm writing an APA 7 paper on a specific professional organization. For one subheading, my instructions are to detail the process of joining the organization complete with hyperlinks for each step of ...
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How do I reference APA style of screenshot of my data on an app? [closed]
How do I reference APA style of screenshot of my data on an app? Ex: data location points on Avenza mapping.
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Why are there dollar amounts listed near the copyright information for journal articles?
Specifically I am looking at this paper, but I've seen these in other papers too. At the bottom of the first page, it has some metadata and copyright information:
© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/...
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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?
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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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Separating citation and text inside parentheses
In the following examples, should the citation be separated by ; or ,?
Simplistically, the goal of the investor is to maximise return (subject to risk constraints; XYZ, 2011).
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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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Question about APA 7-- Avoiding ambiguity in groups of similar authors
In an article I have under review, one reviewer took issue with my use of the citation "(Smith et al., 2005; Smith et al., 2006)." They suggested that it be changed to "(Smith et al., ...
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How to cite a paper with authors in non-alphabetical order?
I am writing a pure-math paper.
I want to cite a paper where the authors are not listed in alphabetical order, e.g.:
John Smith and Anna Perez
I know that the latter is the supervisor of the former.
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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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What style of reference is the below?
I was asked by an editor to write a reference like this. What kinda reference style is this?
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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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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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Harvard referencing in-text
Is the following ‘wrong’ when using Harvard:
Smith (1945) had an idea. He said “blah blah” (p.82) but then he said “blah blah blah” (p.96).
I would have thought this was a stylistic thing rather than ...
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What is the reason behind the tradition of omitting the titles of references in bibliographies/citation lists? [duplicate]
Many standard ways of formatting references do not include the name or title of the work in question in the citation. A formal citation often consists of the author names, journal name, publication ...
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What is the meaning of single number in page section of APA citation
My goal is to resubmit a paper to another journal, which has a requirement to format all citations with APA style. I am using Google Scholar to get a first version of each citation in APA, and want ...
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How to identify unknown citation style
I am in the process of finishing my bachelors thesis and my formal requirements do not name any particular citation style, but instead describe the citation style as following.
Author(s) in the format ...
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APA: Citing a text which references other works
I would like to pick up a claim made in Example (2012), which in itself references other academic writings. That is, Example (2012) writes something along the line of:
Inequality in France has ...
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How to cite an anonymous quote from a paper
I have a quote from an anonymous participant of a study reported in a paper, say by John Smith in 2021. Let's say in the paper it said:
One participant commented:
It's really surprising that the ...
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APA: Citing a term in quotation marks that is not a secondary source (i.e. quotation marks are used by author for emphasis)
The source I would like to cite introduces a new concept, and when doing so, the term used to describe this concept is written in quotation marks – however these quotation marks are used for emphasis ...
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Referencing works that request you use a specific reference format?
I've come across several documents that say something like "please use the following reference to the whole report:," or "reference to this report may be made in the following form:&...
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Chicago Style 17th edition- Footnotes and bibliography
In the Chicago style guide it mentions that you should use footnotes for unusual sources and sources with additional notes/information added and that bibliography is added for traditional sources ...
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Is [sic] used for the citation itself?
I am writing a capstone paper using MLA. I am using a digital file for a source and the file's title seems to have a typo and improper capitalization. The title is "District Demographics all ...
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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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Why are numeric citations used?
I like to know what the citations are as I read and prefer parenthetical citations. Personally, I find number citations highly disruptive to actually use, since I need to flip to the references every ...
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Why are articles and books formatted differently in many citation styles?
Why are articles and books formatted differently in many citation styles? Proceedings, websites, theses and other works are also formatted in their own way.
It really looks very inconsistent and makes ...
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Secondary citation with APA 7th - Does one have to adpot the quotation style?
Let's say an author A doesn't use APA 7th and quotes an author B. I cannot access author B's publication and therefore use a secondary quote. Do I then need to adpot the quotation style of author A ...
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When citing from a foreign language and including a translation - what is correct?
Which version is correct (using APA7)?:
"Die Sonne ist hell. [The sun is bright]" (Müller, 2010, S. 1)
"Die Sonne ist hell." [The sun is bright] (Müller, 2010, S. 1)
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How to cite if one mentions an author several times in a paragraph using APA7?
I have a short paragraph in my text where I summarize the research questions of an author. I begin with
The goal of the author is ... ... leading to his research questions as stated now:
Now there ...
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Citing literature reference as a statement of purpose title
I'm currently putting the finishing touches on a few grad school applications, and some of them require that my statement of purpose has a title. For one reason or another, I decided that the title of ...
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Is it necessary to add editors in citation?
I am adopting the MLA citation style. If a book is written by a principal author with an editor, is it obligatory to add an editor of the book in citation?
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