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How do you cite a Github repository?
I am working on a honours thesis and have developed a Fortran library that I would like to cite in it.
In some places they suggest to quote the documentation of the project but this is something I ...
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How can I export my Google Scholar Library as a BibTeX format?
In the My Library of Google Scholar, is there a way to export all of the citations, whether to BibTex or something similar?
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Is there an open source tool for producing bibtex entries from paper PDFs? [closed]
In the desktop application for Mendeley, it's possible to import a PDF and have the bibliographic data automatically extracted (or perhaps looked up, I'm not sure). This feature is more or less ...
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How to represent and cite a patent using BibTeX?
I need to cite some patents for a paper in BibTeX format. Google Patents provide me a BibTeX like this one:
@misc{spangler1988method,
title={Method and system for measurement of road profile},
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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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Are there any tools to automatically search and download literature in a given .bib file?
I'd like to download automatically tons of papers listed on .bib file so I'm trying to find a way to facilitate the process by, e.g. I import or input to a tool a certain .bib file which contains a ...
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A reference that is old, has no bibtex entry, and probably not well-known throughout the readership. How to cite this?
I am writing an article for an audience that mostly consists of computer scientists. A specific part of the subject is motivated by Kirchhoff's laws. I intend to mention this fact and reference the ...
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Should I keep all my .bib files in a single folder, or one with each .tex file?
Self-explanatory. I would be most interested to hear from researchers who have published a fair amount, decided one way or the other wasn't working for them, so switched — and why.
Related advice / ...
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Construct a network of citations
I had the thought that I should run a computation on my document to see things like: How many times I cite each source, how many times I cite each author etc.
Then I thought that isn't enough.
What if ...
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Why "in Proceedings of conference...", but not "in Journal of ...."
I'm wondering why a well-known citation style (bibtex's "plain" style) produces "In proceedings of 'conference name'" or "In 'conference name'", but drops "in" in case of journals. In my opinion, ...
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What is a good system for generating BibTeX reference keys?
When using a reference manager (or even when tracking references on a handwritten draft), it is common to have a key for each entry when referring to items, which the computer (or you in a final form) ...
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Cite NumPy in BibTex
How to cite NumPy in BibTex?
The Scipy citing page recommends:
Travis E, Oliphant. A guide to NumPy, USA: Trelgol Publishing, (2006).
Is it correct to use:
@Misc{numpy,
author = {Travis ...
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Using BibTeX when submitting an article
Some journals have their own bibliography styles (bst) for BibTeX.
If a journal does not have its own bibliography style, am I supposed to include the content of the bbl-file into the tex-file I am ...
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Finding (correct) citation info for math references
I've just recently learned about BibTeX, rather than manually making a bibliography at the end of everything I write. Now I'd like a reliable source for the citation info.
At school I can use ...
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How should I cite a publication where the author(s) are anonymous (but the organization is not)?
I'd like to cite the following articles from "Scientific Data" (a journal from the Nature Publishing Group), but no authors are mentioned (as far as I can tell):
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015....
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How do I cite ebooks without page numbers? [duplicate]
I am directly quoting a sentence from an ebook. Thus, I want to add the page numbering to its citation. However, different to the print version, which I do not have, this ebook (Amazon Kindle version) ...
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Bibliographic entry for a pseudymous work with known real author
This question is the bibliographic pendant to this question.
Let us suppose I write an academic paper where I cite the well known paper English sentences without overt grammatical subject (pdf), ...
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Pages: Cite an article from a journal
I want to cite an article from a journal, e.g. AMS.
So in the journal, there are several articles from different authors.
Actually I thought that in my bibliography I have to print "pages 56-67&...
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Article with unspecified-but-present authorship ("consensus document")
I'd like to properly refrence an article whose author is mentioned as A Consensus Document (it has some 25 authors).
I have never seen this kind of authorship before; the citation entry generated by ...
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Can I include just a folder from Zotero into Overleaf instead of my entire library?
I am setting up an Overleaf account to work with my Zotero account and ran into an annoying issue. I have one folder within my Zotero library which contains all the references I want to use in a ...
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How to cite GDPR and AI Act?
How to properly cite these two sources?
In the AI/ML literature I am finding many non-homogenous citations of these two documents, with some of them wanting to specify a chapter and others the whole ...
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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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Citing an URL using the Waybackmachine (web.archive.org)
I would like to quote the following quotation correctly:
Information is the oil of the 21st century and analytics is the internal combustion engine.
In other papers I found out that this quote ...
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When citing a paper on arXiv, how important is the category?
The arXiv documentation says that we should reference arXiv documents using references of the form:
arXiv:YYMM.NNNNv# [category]
e.g.:
arXiv:0706.1234v1 [math.FA]
However, most papers that I am ...
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Fast vs. final .bib file - making google-scholar .bib file publication-ready
Making literature review I typically browse google Scholar, cite interesting work, download BibTex from scholar into my .bib file on overleaf - that is it.
Which is more than fine for me... until the ...
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How to cite files on a CD-ROM?
I would like to cite one of the descriptions present on the DIEHARD test battery, which is located on a CD-ROM here. Specifically, I would like to cite the craps test. If I could have the citation in ...
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Cite a book in general and then a chapter in particular
The question is in the context of a paper and a thesis in the area of computational science, computer science and chemistry. I manage my references with Mendeley, and import them into a LaTeX file ...
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Cleaning up/Uniformize bibliography for long document
I was wondering whether existed some software that would take as input a text file bibliography (for instance a bib file if you use bibtex), and that run it through google scholar (or any other ...
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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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How to cite a senior project in BibTeX
I want to cite a senior project of a student in my thesis. However, I don't really have much information about the student.
I know, the title of his work, his name, his university and the link to the ...
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import all references of a paper into a bibtex file
I have a paper that has say 100 references. I'd like to use a lot of them as references to a paper I'm writing, but it seems pretty laborious to go on each and everyone of them, search in google ...
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How do I cite a pullout of a news release?
How do I cite the pullout? Should I just cite the original? What would the bibtex be?
The pullout has information that is extremely useful, and I have not found the thing I needed anywhere else.
(I ...
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How to cite a journal paper which do not have a page number?
I was very annoyed with the Elsevier's journals. Many of them do not provide the page number of the paper.
For example, see, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168420302176
You can ...
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How to cite ACM Computing Classification System?
In the research I'm doing for my master thesis I use the ACM Computing Classification System (2012 edition).
I mean I literally use the data they provide as an RDF graph. How should I cite this ...
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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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How to cite Stack Overflow surveys
How should I cite the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020?
If possible in BibTeX format.
This question was originally asked in meta Stack Exchange, but it was closed for being considered off-topic.
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How to cite a Google Play app?
In my paper I need to cite an Android application.
There is an official way to cite the site Google Play?
I know the tag @misc on BibTeX, but I am looking for a standard style, if exist.
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Correctly adding publisher information to BibTeX bibliographies
Certain bibliographic item classes in BibTeX require or recommend the inclusion of a address field which (as far as I can tell) is supposed to contain the city in which the publisher is located. ...
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Tool for obtaining a BibTeX entry from a key, without creating it manually [closed]
I am looking for a tool, where I only need to write something like alessandroni2015bibtex (this very question) to obtain the BibTeX entry, without needing to rewrite it.
I am aware that Google ...
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Citing an ISO standard with multiple parts, using Harvard style?
I would like to cite an ISO standard that is split into multiple parts, I want to cite the whole standard but am unsure of how to do this in Harvard style.
ISO 14230 Road vehicles – Diagnostic ...
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Which authors do I use when citing technical documentation which is community-editable and has multiple contributors?
Let's take this sample page from Microsoft Docs. It lists multiple contributors (linked below the heading), some from the community with nicknames, as the pages can be edited by practically everyone ...
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How do I cite this 3D teapot model in my BibTeX file? [duplicate]
I am working on some data transformations that work in finite dimensions. To help motivate the reader I would like a simple, but not too simple, example to show how the transformations work. A 3D ...
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bibtex entries for versions of the c++ standard
Where can I find BibTeX entries that help me cite a version of the C++ standard? In a paper I discuss the necessity of trailing return types, which became available in C++11. I want to be able to cite ...
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Find article link by bibtex citation key
I have a list of citation keys (entry names in bib file) but I don't have the name of article. How can I find the article link?
For example, according to bib file of this article, the citation key is ...
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Why does Researchgate not include the booktitle tag in their bibtex for inproceedings / conference papers?
After I always found incomplete entries in the bibliography of theses, I investigated the cause and discovered that Researchgate (RG) does not output a booktitle tag for inproceedings in BibTeX, even ...
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Alternatives to Google Scholar for citation / lit search / BibTex entries? [closed]
Simple question: What alternatives are there to Google Scholar for finding citations, doing lit searches, and most importantly, downloading citation data in BibTex?
There are lots of specialized ...
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Entering the correct Publisher and Editor in a BibTex citation
I would like to enter a PDF book I have purchased into a bibtex library using JabRef. JabRef requires the publisher and editor information for "Book" type entries. In the inside cover of my ...
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Should I add a bibliography for this?
While writing up my introduction for my transfer report (first year exam of the PhD in the UK) I want to give importance to the topic saying something like:
It lead to huge research, being N amount ...
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To cite an organisation correctly in IEEE style
My tex based on Espanta's answer
@techreport{AAMI,
title = {Recommended Practice for Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection Algorithms},
institution = {{...
