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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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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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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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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 cite marginalia in a second-hand book?
So this is an interesting thing I've come across. I recently purchased a modern book for my research and whoever had the book before me had some pretty great things written in the margins.
As a ...
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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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Is strict adherence to a citation format really necessary in actual research?
In high school and college I remember whenever doing some research for a class, my English teacher then will look at the citation at the end and use a red pen to mark out any place where MLA format is ...
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How to cite a site from the dark web?
For my masters degree in computer science, I'm currently working on a paper on ransomware. Goal of this paper is to focus on academic writing and citing sources correctly.
Trustworthiness/Quality of ...
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How to cite a paper with erratum?
I want to cite a paper [A], which has been corrected by an erratum [B] in the same journal. I have not found a rule how to cite this case.
Is it proper to cite [A,B], or just [A] or just [B].
I am ...
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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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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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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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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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How do I cite an equation that has a typo in the source?
I want to cite an equation in my thesis that has a minor typo in the cited source (the wrong letter is used for an index). How should I do that? Can I simply correct the typo in my paper without ...
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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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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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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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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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When the title of an article is printed differently in the front/back matter versus the first page, which should be used for citing the article?
I wish to cite a research paper by B. L. van der Waerden from 1928 that is titled (very) slightly differently in the front/back matter of the journal versus the first page of the article: in the front/...
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Why should I format a citation manually without bibliographic software?
During a lecture (and a separate presentation) my instructor told us about bibliographic software, how it composes references automatically and is able to correctly cite articles in many formats. The ...
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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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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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How do I cite an article which has been accepted pending revisions, but the revisions aren't accepted yet?
I have an article accepted in a journal, providing I make certain revisions. I have now made the revisions and sent them off, but am awaiting the journal's confirmation that the reviewers are ...
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Is there a standard for capitalization in references of math papers?
How do you capitalize the titles of references in a math paper? Would you rather write:
Global smooth solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations
or
Global Smooth Solutions of the Navier-Stokes ...
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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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How to handle citing duplicate publications?
I am writing a review article and have come across a number of references which were published verbatim in their entirety in more than one place (same author(s) and the same content; Duplicate ...
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Should I normalize inconsistent proceedings titles?
I work in a discipline where titles of published conference proceedings are notoriously inconsistent. (Perhaps all disciplines are like this?) For example, various years' proceedings of the same ...
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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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How long should a direct quote be in order to be put in quotation marks?
Let's suppose there is a short definition in a source and that I want to report such definition in a paper but adapting the initial wording to the sentence.
For instance
Definition: a bottle is a ...
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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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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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Position of infixes of names (e.g. “van”) in bibliographies
When I create a bibliography, do infixes of names always go with the surname as follows?
Van de Sompel, Herbert
van Leeuwen, Theo
The examples come from bibliographies I have within my collection ...
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How to specify Russian (foreign) authors in the bibliography of an article in English? [duplicate]
I am writing an article for publication in English. It is necessary to include references to articles written by Russian authors in Russian language. Do I have to translate their names and titles of ...
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Repeat citation for consecutive sentences
When the next sentence in the paper or thesis shares the same citation with the previous one. Should cite one time only at the end of the 2end sentence or cite 2 times - one for each.
For example:
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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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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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"First et al.", many authors with same surname, and IEEE citations
I'm describing an evolution of ideas like this:
Wang et al. suggested quantizing the ReLU function [1]. Later, Wang
et al. extended that method by shifting the function base [2]. In
contrast, Wang et ...
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Do I mention that a paper in mathematics is a "Short Communication" or "Note" or "Research Article" when citing it?
Apologies in advance for a possibly naive question. When I search for literature relevant to my research work, I come across articles that are published variously as either a "Short Communication&...
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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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Which google scholar citation format is IEEE standard?
When I want to use formatted citation from google sholar it;s show 5 option to copy. Which one is IEEE standard? I add an image for clear my question.
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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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Citing Math Lesson Plans
If I am creating lesson plans, do I need to cite the various websites I use for my work? It is for math, and the information I have used is found in thousands of sites. I have not taken any lesson ...
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Which date (received, accepted, published) is relevant when citing a paper?
I want to cite this article in my thesis. Which date should I to use in my bibliography? At the beginning of the article, there are three dates
Received 28 April 2021
Accepted: 5 November 2021
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Is there a trollish/novelty/esoteric citation style?
In programming, there are these so-called "esoteric programming languages" like "LOLCODE" or "Shakespeare," which really have pretty much zero usefulness. They are just kind of a novelty, or if a ...
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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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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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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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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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Citing a Video Game in Harvard Format
I have to write an Extended Essay as part of my IB diploma, and I'm writing mine on the episodic adventure game of Life is Strange as an English EE. One of the issues I've encountered during the ...
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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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