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Should I cite author names as they appear in the journal or as I know them to be complete?
Since I've been using Mendeley to manage and extract metadata from my PDFs, I've come to notice that authors are sometimes denoted with all their initials and sometimes with just one. I assume this ...
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Should my citation style exactly match the original title?
In my field a number of different styles are used in titles.
Many publications present scientific names in italics, such as this one. Others do not italicise scientific names, such as this one.
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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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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 refer to a source with typos in the title?
How to cite a paper with a typographical error in the title. In the reference list, should I correct it (and make it hard to find) or let it as is (and make an impression I was sloppy)?
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Why do so many publication venues have their own citation styles?
I have noticed that it seems like every other conference has it's own citation style; even in the same field, or subfield.
Or at least each provide their own bibtex style (.BST) file.
Are they ...
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Is it acceptable to include a paper in the reference list but not cite it in text?
A paper (quite) related to some work my coauthors and I have recently appeared as a preprint. This paper cites ours; however, it does not do so in the body of the paper (intro, proofs, etc.), but only ...
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How should I cite a tool or a library in my article?
When using an online library, tool, framework or something similar, what is the proper way to reference it in an article?
(I work in Computer Science). For example, I want to say that many popular ...
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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 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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How to handle repeated references in footnotes?
I have to cite the same reference two times on each footnote on different pages. Suppose footnote note 1 on page 1 is the same reference as footnote 7 on page 4.
Should I provide different serial ...
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How to cite own unpublished work in text and reference?
I would like to cite one of my own unpublished work (under review). Is it okay to cite as following?
In text
According to author et al. (year of submission).................
In reference
authors list,...
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How do I handle a colleague's gender change when citing their paper?
We are currently working on a conference paper where we plan to cite and discuss a paper as a related work. It was written by a colleague at the same university who has kindly offered to help us ...
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How should 'van'-names be ordered in a bibliography?
How would names with 'van', written in the Dutch style - e.g. van Beukering, J., be ordered in a bibliography?
Do we count the 'van' element so that e.g. van Beukering, J. would be some point after ...
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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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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:
In this ...
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Why do some fields care so much more about citation styles?
On this website, there are 120 questions tagged citation-style, and probably many more without the tag (a search for APA returns 244 results).
I work in applied mathematics, and among my colleagues ...
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Citing article where listed author is pseudonym
If one wanted to cite an article where the listed author is a pseudonym and it is well-known that the name is a pseudonym then which name ought one use?
Normally I would just use the name listed on ...
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Should references in foreign language be translated to make popular audience get familiar with how academia works?
Typically, references in foreign language are cited with title and journal name in original language, whether they are academic or popular science books. As pointed out in this answer, popular science ...
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How should English reference be cited in a non-English work?
According to the Chicago Manual Style 16 edition, section 14.194 Translated Article Titles, non-English article cited in an English work follows this formula:
Authors, "Original title," [...
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Abbreviating first names in the bibliography
In my bibliography I use the names of the authors as they are given in the publication. Usually this will be the last name, the first name not abbreviated and second names abbreviated. However, I now ...
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In IEEE format, How to cite a website when no author name is given?
Problem
I have to cite this webpage. However, no author name is given there.
What I have found?
This and this one have referred, when we do not find author name, the title moves to the first ...
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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 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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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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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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