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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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How to cite paper when there is a gap between conference date and publication date
We are preparing conference proceedings of a research unit to be published online for the first time. Their first conference was in 2010. We are developing their website with export citation options ...
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What do all the numbers mean in a pubmed shorthand citation?
At the top of a pubmed abstract, there's a "shorthand" citation, and I don't know what the numbers mean. For example:
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008;1129:323-9. doi: 10.1196/annals.1417.017.
What do all ...
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How to cite primary source that's also featured in a book
This is a bit confusing. I'm currently writing a cookbook, and a chef said he would send me one of his restaurant's recipes. When he did, it was in the form of a scan of the recipe as it was featured ...
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How to initial an author's name that contains nobiliary particles and articles
When an author's name contains something like "van der", "de la", etc, and you wish to initial the author's first/middle names (all but surname) in a reference, how do you deal ...
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How should I cite a paper that I've obtained by asking the author to send it to me?
I'm basing my dissertation on a study in a paper that isn't available anywhere I've found online. I emailed the author and they sent me a pdf copy. Normally when I write citations for an electronic ...
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How do I reference/cite a figure created specially for me by someone else?
A friend of mine helped to created figures shown in my thesis. I know that you do not need te reference figures created yourself. (How) am I supposed to give credits to my friend?
Is there a special ...
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Citing own results which were obtained under former name
I'm giving a talk about results I obtained in my MSc thesis, some time after which I changed my last name. The result will be published under my former name. How should I state it during the talk? I ...
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What is the meaning of promotor and copromotor in Dutch PhD thesis?
I would like to know what is the difference between author and contributor in the Dutch system, and how to appropriately cite such a thesis? Only author? (APA format) Why this strange name promotor? ...
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How to cite spreadsheets or other documents for in-line citations?
I've googled around and haven't found any information. I'm using data from a table in a spreadsheet, accessed from a website (The Statistics Bureau of Japan) and I don't know how I should cite it ...
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What's the generally accepted way to cite a generated report?
I am working on a paper that includes numerous graphs that were generated by an analytics system. These graphs are uniquely generated based on specific criteria I provided, but I did not collect the ...
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Visited website on different dates - apa style
Ray, B. (2018, June 25). NB-IoT vs. LoRa vs. Sigfox. Retrieved January 4, 2019, from https://www.link-labs.com/blog/nb-iot-vs-lora-vs-sigfox
In the source reference of my paper I refer to a website. ...
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How to cite a working paper, preprint, or manuscript?
How I can cite a submitted manuscript which I am not supposed to publicly archive (e.g. on arXiv) because the review process is double-blind (i.e. the manuscript is anonymized and should not be ...
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MLA German translated citations
I am writing a paper (in German) for a philosophy seminar using MLA citation style. For my work I use three english sources and I am going to translate all of my quotes for a better textflow. At the ...
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In a paragraph about a paper, where do I put the citation?
I have a paragraph about a specific method used by an author and I am wondering where in that paragraph I should put my inline citation.
The paragraph in question goes something like this, where ...
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How to cite a drug name in AMA Style journal article?
In my paper, I have used a drug name called Metformin. But I received a comment from Editor to cite the drug name.
May I know how can I cite the drug name in AMA style?
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How to cite a paragraph from a paper with a citation in it
In my paper, I want to cite a paragraph from another paper that looks like this:
Universities are an ideal target for attackers because they have high bandwidth and open systems.“A university is ...
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Citing a revision of a 2nd edition book
I'm wondering how to reference a book The Jepson Manual, 2nd Edition shown below.
Baldwin, B. et al. (ed.). 2012. The Jepson Manual, Vascular Plants of
California, Rev. 2, 2nd ed. University of ...
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How to cite a chapter in an edited book with a unique translator for that chapter using Chicago Style?
I'm using Chicago Style 17th edition, author-date system. I'm trying to cite a chapter from an edited book, but every chapter has a different translator.
Chicago Manual says that for edited books, the ...
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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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How do I cite — in APA style — a Creative Commons licensed image retrieved from Wikimedia Commons?
Suppose I wish to use this image in my paper: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_white_tiger.jpg
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How do I credit someone who made the trajectory file used for my thesis?
There's a trajectory file which I included a sample of in my Appendix. Here's a screenshot:
Aside from stating in the Appendix text the name of the creator of the file, is there anything more I could ...
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References must be cited vs. need not be cited
In reviewing publishing guidelines prior to submission to a journal, it is listed that "References need not be cited in text." This is also listed in the style guide for the associated professional ...
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Citing summaries of many sources
I am working on a "Handbook" on a technical topic I am personally interested in and I also need for work. To back up statements and provide reputable sources I try to cite everything even though it ...
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Footnote vs reference for API documentation
As a computer scientist, I'm not sure whether I should be using footnotes or references (as in, those that go in "thebibliography" at the end) when referring to Javadocs. I think there is some ...
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Methodology Question: How to deal with others having written about similar topic?
Basically, I am wondering how one is to deal with other scholars that have written about a similar topic or have covered similar/the same phenomenon (my field are the social sciences/humanities). What ...
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Do I need to translate Works Cited at the end? [duplicate]
I am translating an academic paper to English. However, most of the sources cited at the end, are in other languages (e.g. Russian). Do I need to translate the list of references into English as well?
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how reference a translation of an already translated text?
Somebody wrote a text in Latin, let’s call her Alice and let’s call the text De Nihilo. This text was then translated into German by Bob. In my work, I translate Bob’s translation into English.
In the ...
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How to cite an aside article in a bible MLA format
I have an a NIV Arcaeological Study Bible and am taking an Old Testament studies course. This bible has a lot of articles about archaeology and history alongside scripture. None of the articles have ...
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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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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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Making an offhand note in a citation
I noticed that a PDF link from a university course I used as a URL to cite doesn't open, unless it's opened from the course portal itself. Within my referencing of the source, I note which link to ...
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Should I include all authors for in-text citation if I cite a source with three (or more) authors in a different chapter again?
According to this site, when you're using the APA reference style, if a source has 3-5 authors, all authors should be mentioned in the first in-text citation, while only the first author need to be ...
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How can I reference an insight taught in Cousera's Lecture?
I took a specialization course at Coursera in which I have learned a lot of insights that would be essentially useful while writing my master's degree dissertation. How can I refer to them?
I've ...
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How to cite computer terminals like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters?
Consider that I looked up some data, more specifically credit ratings for a sovereign, in the Bloomberg and the Thomson Reuters terminal for my thesis:
The sovereign is rated Aaa by Moody's, AAA by ...
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Do books need a URL when cited?
I'm writing my thesis with Latex and I use Mendeley for the citation.
When I add a book and specify some attributes, like title, author and ISBN, Mendeley automatically adds some missing attributes.
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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 citation style is mainly used in political science?
According to Wikipedia, the most pertinent styles are Chicago and APSA, which is a variant of Chicago. But I could not find stronger references about this.
EDIT. The purpose of my question is the ...
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Reference style where authors are abbreviated with long underscore
What is the name of this reference style? In which other fields have you seen it?
It replaces author names (in the list of references) with a long underscore when it's the same authors as in the ...
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Help with referencing a summarized data from multiple sources into one single reference
What would be the best way to reference the following case:
I have taken some reported financial figures from the annual reports ranging from 2017 to 2023 of 5 different companies. Using those ...
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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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How to cite a dataset, when my calculations relied on the data?
Occasionally I need to present some figures that I calculated with custom scripts against a dataset, such as a dictionary, text corpus, or some form of lexical database. The calculations are my own, ...
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For citations, Should I use the citation of the mentioned name or the journal it was in?
An article I want to cite mentiones an author and has paraphrased a sentence. I would like to refer to that sentence but I'm not sure who to reference in the in-text citation: the author of the ...
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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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How to cite a google survey in an original paper?
Is it even possible to cite a google survey (designed by yourself) in an original paper? [via docs.google.com]
Any explanations would be thanked!
Regards.
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How to cite different chapters of a book in the same paragraph?
Background: I'm writing a master's thesis with APA citations.
In one paragraph, I cite two unrelated pieces of information that happen to come from different chapters of the same textbook. It's ...
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Help picking an appropriate citing style
I wrote a paper about governance mechanisms at StackExchange in which I got a lot of informations out of questions (especially on meta). I have kept all my references.
My teacher is letting us pick ...
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How to cite a book when both the first and the latest editions' years matter?
I want to cite a proof appearing in the book from 1982. The thing is, the book has a newer edition from 2002; but at the same time, it's important for me to indicate the result is from 1982. On the ...
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Citing paragraphs with multiple references
I am using MLA. I have two paragraphs which are paraphrases of 5 different papers over tillage. Each fact and statement in the two paragraphs are somehow (pretty directly) stated in each of those ...
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Is it standard practice to make sure that multiple, numbered citations occuring together are ordered? [closed]
If including multiple, numbered citations together, is it standard practice^ to order them according to number? For example, one might see
Several studies [1,3,5] show that quantity X is relevant to ...
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