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Does a reference to a work inside a footnote have to be in the bibliography?
If in a footnote I write something like, "For more on the debate, see... so and so"
Does that work I referenced in the footnote go on the bibliography page even if I did not reference this work ...
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Is citation required when googling a short answer?
I was writing a research paper that required me to use quotes and cite the websites/databases those quotes came from. Later, I needed some quick stats, so I googled them. I only used the numbers and ...
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Acknowledging data sources used for creating an image
For a conference paper, I created an image compiling data from multiple sources. What is the correct format for acknowledging the sources?
Map showing road condition (Data source: Esri, OpenStreetMap)...
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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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Is there any guidance on how to properly cite when using the alphabetic style from BiBLaTeX?
I am looking for some specifications on how to use the alphabetic style for citing properly. I know that there are different solutions and that this is highly related to personal preference or ...
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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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Conference held in year X, proceedings published in X+2 - which to use?
A certain conference was held on year X, but its proceedings were published in print in year X+2.
When I cite an article submitted to that conference (which I read in the published proceedings) - how ...
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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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How to reference sources when I only took the ideas?
I am writing my essay where I analyze how different text search algorithms work and compare their efficiency in specific situations.
I did not actually take even a sentence from where I have read ...
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Citing directly in research document
is it possible to reference a citation directly?
Example:
"the expected values considering the gain and the cost of each behavior as in [9]"
or should one instead explicitly mention the authors?
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Should I indicate that definitions are from an article?
In my master thesis I included some definitions exactly (just translated in French) like they appear in a paper because they are particularly well written and easy to read for someone who has never ...
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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 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 do I reference a conference paper that is due to be published later this year
I am writing a paper that builds on a previous work. The previous work has been accepted at a conference and will be published as part of the proceedings, but it hasn't been published yet. Do I just ...
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Citation of the table or illustration made by myself
I wanted to state the source of the illustration I made by myself. The illustration shows the structure of the company, which is based on my research and a number of other sources. What is the best ...
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Is it necessary to write "United States of America" in bibliographies when describing the place of publication?
I'm from the UK, and currently writing my dissertation. I'm citing several sources from publishers in the USA, and am unsure what the best practice is for writing the place of publication. The ...
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APA Citation. I don't know what it's considered as
My professor gave me a pdf to cite in another paper I have. I don't know if I consider it as a report, article, or paper. I included the cite of the pdf my professor gave me. Please let me know how to ...
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How to handle a bib source with no author?
I am writing a paper in English and have a couple of sources that have no author. In German there would be the abbreviation o.V. standing for ohne Verfasser which translates to no author in those ...
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How should one cite the entirety of a journal?
I want to cite a journal itself, not an article in it, the publication. I think the same would hold for a magazine, not an issue of that magazine. The specific citation information will be enough.
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Can we have a citation in the Works Cited and not use it in an essay? [duplicate]
I have a citation of an online article that I used in my research for an essay, yet I haven't referenced this citation anywhere in the essay. Should I keep the citation, or delete it because nothing ...
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How to find the Endnote template for CJPH submission?
I have been searching and trying out to find the Endnote citation style to match the one required for the Canadian Journal of Public Health submission for hours, with no success.
It demonstrated that ...
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Examples of when to use "Accessed" in citation and references
I once found an example of "Accessed" from or date accessed in citation and references in the current 6th edition of the APA publication manual. Would somebody please give me a proper example of how ...
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How to cite in two languages combined with acronym at the same time in Harvard style
Let's say one is writing an academic paper, and one has to deal with two languages and possibly acronyms. How would be appropiate to formate the citations in the text using Harvard style?
If one is ...
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How important is it to cite the URL in bibliographies?
We use MHRA Author-Date for citations, and the information about MHRA Author-Date online is usually contradictory and unhelpful. The guide I've always referred to from my university only specifies ...
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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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Subsequent citations of a Note in a translated Book. (Chicago Style)
I am using the Chicago-style Citation in a Paper that I am working on. I have written this in a paragraph:
Es lässt sich vermuten, dass Platon etwas Bestimmtes in seinen Gedanken hatte, als er ...
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APA: Citing an annual report over multiple years
I have looked everywhere for an answer to this question. I don't often use APA format. In Chicago, when referencing in-text an annual report over a span of years, one simply types: (Smith, multiple ...
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Confused about bibliography in old books
I’ve been looking at the bibliography of an old book called History Of Burma by G. E. Harvey and am quite confused.
There are abbreviations introduced first like this:
B Bodleian Library
BM ...
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Giving the position when quoting ebook without page count?
My question is referring to APA citation and specifically if it is accepted to provide the position a quote from a Kindle ebook can be found at. The ebook in question does not provide page numbers. In ...
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Do I need to include page numbers when citing indirectly in the text?
I'm referring to APA citation. Say I'm picking up a train of thought of an author and I know which book he states it in. I just don't have a page number. Is it okay to just say (Muller, 2008) without ...
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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 to cite a website/manual where the authors are (mostly) unknown?
For my thesis, I need to cite some pieces of software documentation. The website in question is the documentation of Kubernetes.
I'm fine with using @misc entries in my bibtex file, but obviously I ...
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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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How to cite information removed from a working paper when it was published
Here's a simplified version of a bibliographic problem I'm facing.
A working paper estimated that Public Policy X caused Social Indicator Y to increase by 25%—practically significant, but not ...
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How to cite a TED Talk with Youtube URL in MLA 8?
How do I do it? I've already googled the heck out of it but all the answers were incomplete.
The URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2tOp7OxyQ8
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How to cite a physical product?
Assume I’m writing a paper about randomness. I might have this text:
Traditional TRNGs are (typically) external add on devices of varying size, cost and complexity [11][12][13].
How would I cite ...
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Attributing Second-order Citations
Imagine that a paper by [Author A] has pulled together some literature on the misuse of a technology in context X. I now want to talk about misuse of the same technology but in context Y. When ...
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How to cite the terminology that has different meanings in different contexts but with the same name?
For example, I am conducting research in "human attention".
Two papers both use the terminology "attention maps". However, actually one paper refer "attention maps" as "gaze maps" and the other refer ...
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Should I cite the reference if I have already cited it in the previous paragraph?
For example,
A [1] is a dataset for training the model.
I have cited once in this sentence.
Then in the second sentence somewhere in my paper,
I would like to use A [1] as my experimental ...
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How to cite several papers at once with first same authors?
I would like to cite both Potter, Granger and Weasley (1995) and Potter, Granger and Weasley (1998) for the same claim. I would write
Hogwarts is a school of magic (Potter et al. 1995,1998).
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Underscore in place of author in references
I have recently seen author’s names being replaced with underscores in the references of two different works. For instance in Andrew Wiles’ Modular elliptic curves and Fermat’s last theorem:
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Citing an article that the journal serialized
Reynolds, Keld J. "Principal Actions of the California Junta De Fomento 1825-1827." Calif Hist QJ Calif Hist Soc 24.4 (1945): 289-320.
Reynolds, Keld J. "Principal Actions of the ...
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zotero: can I manually change a citation style
I'm in the humanities, and I'm currently using zotero to cite primary and secondary materials in my dissertation. I apply the Chicago Manual Style, and don't have any issues with secondary sources.
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How should I cite a specific section of the LabVIEW online documentation?
How can I cite a specific page of the LabVIEW online documentation?
I need to cite these two pages: from the tutorial and types of graphs and charts.
Would I be better off citing the online help ...
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Using reference as a subject in writing [duplicate]
Is it acceptable to use references as a subject in a sentence (in the context of academic writing, preferably in computer science)?
For example:
An extensive research has been done on eye capture ...
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Repeatedly citing same item of personal communication
The APA style indicates that personal communication should be cited in the format "J. Doe (personal communication, M dd, yyyy)" in-text, without a bibliographic entry. I was wondering what the best ...
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Publications and International Standard for bibliographic references
I'm applying for a job which requires the list of all publications.
Quoting the call:
Publications over the last 10 years in chronological order within each category following the International ...
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MLA: in-text citations from one work - do I need to restate the author every paragraph?
MLA formatting question:
I'm writing a paper on Ernest J. Gaine's A Gathering of Old Men. This is the only work I am citing. When using in-text citations, do I need to restate the author in every ...
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