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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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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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How to cite paper with several co-first authors in APA style?
It's common in my field to have articles with many (>>6) authors including several "co-first authors." For example:
A. Anderson*, B. Brown*, C. Clark, D. Davidson, ..., Z. Zed
* These authors ...
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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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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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Harvard referencing - Multiple Authors
I am using Harvard referencing for my thesis draft, however, I am a bit confused with how to cite multiple authors (4 or more) in the bibliography. Specifically, I have been finding contradicting ...
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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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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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Which citation style is the most concise and has the least impact on word count?
I'm writing a research proposal with a small maximum word count. References are included in this word count. Fortunately, the citation style is not specified.
I was wondering if there is any (widely ...
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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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Is it okay to cite a supplemental attachment when referencing a previously published technique or method? (advanced materials and surface science)
The thorough answer to Roadmap and possible pitfalls for a first-time software author to publish a paper on a Python package? covers the issue nicely, and it's not yet clear if in my case this paper ...
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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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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 in text a citation translated by me
Thats the question. I'm writing a paper in Spanish and I need to cite (APA) several citations in Spanish of books written in English that doesn't have translated versions. My reviewer is telling me ...
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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 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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Citing a Matlab live script
How do I cite or reference Matlab live script? I want to cite/reference a Matlab live script that is published on my university's homepage. How to do that correctly?
The script has a detailed ...
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Where is the best place to refer to the system of transliteration in an article?
Following APA style, "if you are citing a work written in a non-Latin script (e.g., Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Russian), the reference must be transliterated into the English alphabet."
Sometimes, for ...
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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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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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Chicago citation of quote in quote
In my paper, I am quoting a sentence which involves a quote from another paper. I am using Chicago style notes and bibliography. How should I do this? See the example below:
Hoffman concludes, “...
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How to properly cite the source of pictures in powerpoint slides
I am giving a short presentation at a virtual conference soon, and would like to include some images from the internet in my presentation. Particularly, I'd like to use an image from this wolfram ...
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Does APA style use parentheses to differentiate between names for works versus names for authors?
I am in the process of conforming a paper to the APA style guide. However, I recently came across submission guidelines for an academic journal, and the following distinction stood out to me:
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How should I directly refer to works using the Harvard style?
I am not clear how a work should be cited directly in text using the Harvard style (specifically, the Harvard Bath variety). This is probably best explained through examples. Consider the alternatives:...
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What reference type to use in EndNote to cite GitHub resources and how to cite
What reference type should I use in EndNote to cite a GitHub resource? And how do I cite the resource in the fields used in EndNote for the specific reference type?
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How to cite an article found on a webpage
I would like to cite the following pdf found in a website online in a personal article I'm working on:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/texlive-doc/latex/base/encguide.pdf
As you can see this ...
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Citing online journal papers for Master's Class Research Project
I am doing my masters in energy systems engineering. Whenever I cite a scientific paper that I found online, I include the link where I got it and date accessed in the citation, as well as the DOI, ...
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How to cite guide that doesn't have a year?
I have to cite this guide in one of my papers using the APA citation style.
How to cite it inline?
Zotero is inserting the citation like "(Tingley et al., n.d.)" because it doesn't have a ...
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A few questions about properly citing resources according to the APA format
I recently finished writing a monograph but I am having some slight misunderstandings about how to properly cite the resources I used.
When mentioning the source of figures, should I write the author'...
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Which style guides, if any, recommend using "ms" to cite unpublished manuscripts?
I've come across papers in which an author cites an unpublished manuscript by listing the author's name followed by "ms" enclosed in parentheses. So, for example:
As Surname (ms) points out,...
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Citing article with number AND issue
I stumbled over some journal which uses, next to volumes, numbers AND issues. I am wondering how one cites articles in this journal. For example, if some article is contained in a journal having only ...
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Chicago Manual of Style - notes in footnotes
When using Chicago Style Footnote can other notes (i.e. asides and not references) be used in the footnotes as well or should footnotes be kept exclusively for the references?
If mixed (references ...
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How to I cite from one source with some additional information from other sources in APA?
I have a brief section in my thesis that is pretty much entirely a paraphrase from a single source, but with a few additional pieces of information from other sources. Would it be APA-compliant to ...
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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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Will getting the citation format minorly incorrect cost me?
I recently submitted a graded essay with the Harvard citation format and did not know that for single authored papers, the in-text citation follows as Last Name (Year) when starting a sentence or ...
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Using Cambridge's "short-title reference system"
Does anyone have experience using the Cambridge UP's "short-title reference system" or even just know of a work that uses it. I'm copy-editing for some extra cash but the style guide they ...
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How to cite a spoken quote?
I have a quote spoken by a person in an interview, how do I cite it?
Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died
on Thursday, said in a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, &...
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Citation of a book chapter that was put online
I am trying to cite, using the ACS format, https://www.intechopen.com/books/cancer-causing-substances/heavy-metals-and-cancer, but I don't know whether it is considered a book or ebook chapter. How am ...
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How should I cite an open letter with a large number of signatories?
When citing an open letter, is it appropriate to cite all of the signatories as authors?
I would like to cite the following open letter: Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American ...
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How to cite a company that gave the data and formulated a problem to be solved in a competition?
So recently there was a data science competition and we learned and made a good algorithm which can be published as a case study. So how can I cite the Data source and the really good score metric ...
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Latin abbreviation for "see there"
I am writing a paper and want to reference another source. In academic Hebrew, this would be said using the abbreviations for, "See (source)" or "as explained in (source), see there&...
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In-text citations - First and subsequent citations - AMA
Am new to writing research article. While I am following the guidelines here
Am I right to understand that whenever we refer to a source, we cite them in-text.
Let's say my paragraph has 100 lines.
I ...
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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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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 ...
