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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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How to cite an entire section I rephrased from a book using APA style?
Let us say that I'm summarizing a chapter from a book.
I'm rephrasing an entire section, let us say that the section is about scheduling algorithms which are taken from operating systems concepts book....
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Author-Date style with Mendeley citation manager
I have recently started using Mendeley Desktop with Microsoft Word. I am using the Author-Date style of citation and have encountered some difficulties. I'm hoping someone has a solution. Here are the ...
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How do you refer to foreign titles in APA6?
I'm familiar with the example for when I am citing a part of a foreign source but I have questions about referring to foreign titled work. I have written papers before in MLA, but I am required to ...
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(APA) Citations for figures I created with existing data (An Egotistical Dilemma)
Context: I'm working on a paper in APA style. I created two scatterplots on my own using code I wrote in R. However, the actual raw data represented comes from a source in my references.
Issue: I feel ...
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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 should I cite an open letter with a large number of signatories?
When citing an open letter, is it appropriate to cite all of the signatories as authors?
I would like to cite the following open letter: Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American ...
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Is it correct to use citations as nouns for scientific papers, such as dissertations of articles?
Which of these two is better accepted, or preferred, for scientific papers?
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The model detaches the calculation of the vertical velocity from the
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Do I need to cite the source every time I paraphrase in this particular project paper?
This is my first question in this forum and although I have gained a lot of information about proper citation from the web, I am still confused in this case. We are assigned a task by college to make ...
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Do I need footnotes in a Foreword if I cite something?
Dear Colleagues and Stack Exchange Readers,
Hello. I am writing a Foreword for a colleague's scholarly monograph. I would like to quote from one of my own books, as well as from the recent memoir of ...
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Same citation in multiple paragraphs (undergrad paper) [duplicate]
What I currently have is:
paragraph 1
paragraph 2
paragraph 3 [1].
With that I want to show that I am citing all 3 paragraphs from the same source. But appearently this is not right. Is it enough ...
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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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May I cite an unpublished exercise from a lecture?
In a mathematics thesis I am currently working on, I use a statement we proved in the exercise classes of a lecture I attended last year, but neither the exercises nor the lecture notes have been ...
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How do I cite an article with no page numbers and only a DOI number (APA format)?
I am writing an article that requires citations in APA format. As you may know, that format requires page numbers
I am pulling quite a few articles from the journal of Remote Sensing (MDPI), which ...
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Harvard referencing: same year, same last name, same initials
This is a question about the Harvard referencing system.
I've written a paper and cited two publications, each with a single author, both published in the same year. These authors are unrelated - ...
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Condensed citation of multiple GitHub issues
I have submitted around ~12 bug reports and want to cite this factoid in my paper. But I don't want to cite 12 different links for each GitHub issue. The links all have this common prefix:
https://...
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How to cite a subsection of a book for IEEE
For example, we use pp. 4-7 for pages from 4 to 7 and ch. 2 for chapter 2, but how should we cite a subsection of a book when a chapter is divided into multiple subsections, e.g. 2.1, 2.2, ... in a ...
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Correctly formatting automatic APA 7th edition style citations in Word [closed]
I have Office 365 and in Microsoft Word which is updated to the latest edition. I could manually enter inline citations, but for speed and ease of citing, I have elected to use the automatic citation ...
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How to cite a paper which has been presented and included in proceedings but not yet published online?
I have submitted my paper to a conference A, where it has been presented and is included in the proceedings and is yet to be published online and would be completed in few months. How do I cite this ...
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How to cite an old paper?
My first article was accepted with minor revisions, one of them being the correction of a citation. This citation points to the first time the method I am improving was proposed, which was 1962.
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Why are some highly-cited papers shown by Google Scholar arXiv preprints?
I found some papers somewhat related to my work, and, on Google Scholar, the citations are for the arXiv preprint, not a journal version of the paper. Why is this? The citations are in the thousands, ...
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How to cite an authorless report in JabRef/Bibtex
I am learning to use bibtex/jabref in the context of a literature review and would like to cite the following report:
https://www.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/379567.pdf
The report is compiled by the ...
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Citing a Datasheet or Technical document in IEEE style
I am working on a thesis in the Engineering field and I came across the problem of citing datasheets, technical documents, test reports, application notes, reference designs... that the manufacturers ...
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How to write source information for tables if I'm using data from multiple sources?
I am using data from 3-4 different sources in my table. How to cite the source information in MLA format? As far as I know, Source information is written below tables in the MLA style. But is it okay ...
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Citation of different types of sources
In my small research paper (Bachelor level, university of applied sciences) that I'm writing for my internship, I want to make use of certain frames from videos that have been published by the company ...
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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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In IEEE format, How to cite a website when no author name is given?
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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 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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Citing multiple parts of one website APA
I'm writing a small research paper (University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor level) where I cite and reference some information from a company's website.
I currently have the specific pages of the ...
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APA reference for uppercase word in title of book [duplicate]
I need to complete references for an assignment in APA format, but one of the books has an uppercase word in it and I'm not sure if it should remain uppercase or be changed to lowercase:
The SAGE ...
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How to properly credit other people when writing a text book?
In many textbooks, authors usually write about other people's research results without the type of detailed and extensive citations typically seen in a research paper.
Often times without any credit ...
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How to merge mendeley contiguous citations in body text?
I am writing a paper by using Mendeley and I want to cite many paper at the end of a sentence such as [1-5]. But when I have inserted the citations contiguosly, it seems like [1],[2],[3],[4],[5]. How ...
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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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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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Chicago manual of style block quote reference placement
In the Chicago manual of style Author-Date format, what is the preferred way to place the reference to a block quote, if the author name is mentioned in the text.
As Smith (2000, 3) wrote about this ...
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Changing citation reference systems
I am writing a research paper for the first time and I submitted my paper to a journal, in which the references in my paper were addressed in parentheses, as follows:
".....be preferentially located ...
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How to have a system of referencing citations so that it is short and well-styled
I am familiar with writing the citation part (in different styles). However, I have typically just used superscripts like Wikipedia to reference the citation, like this[1] sort of thing. I would like ...
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How to cite primary source first found in secondary source?
I have the following situation (I am in the humanities):
I am writing a paper. In that paper, I several times cite a particular scholar's book. Now, in that book, this scholar cites (not quotes) a ...
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How do you properly cite an advertisement from a website online in APA formatting?
I can't find an answer to this question anywhere. How do you properly cite an advertisement from a website online in APA formatting?
Is it just:
Company. (Year, Month Day of Ad Retrieval). Ad ...
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What's the proper way to (APA) reference a settlement agreement?
I want to reference an exhibit from the following document (it's been split into separate parts):
Exhibits:
https://targetbreachsettlement.com/Portals/0/Documents/Settlement%20Agreement%20Exhibits....
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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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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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Do we cite authors or papers when using author/year citations?
Numbered citations
In my field, we usually use only numbered citations, e.g.
As shown in [1], the sky is blue.
This means that we obviously refer to a certain the paper (which can be found under [...
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Mendeley Harvard reference format [closed]
Does anyone know where I can find a correct Harvard reference format to upload on Mendeley Desktop and use it with the Mendeley Word plug-in?
It seems that the ones available are not correct.
Thanks
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Article: Author information when occupation has changed [duplicate]
I'm currently the main author of a paper. The work was performed when I was working at university X. However, I will start at a new university Y in one month, and the conference I'm presenting the ...
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Should I include the country when citing government agencies in APA?
I use APA citation style. When I cite a government agency as the author or publisher of a work, should I include "United States", "U.S.", or omit the country entirely? Is it ever appropriate to ...
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Citing a Book Chapter where the book is not yet published, and the bibliographic details are not known
I'm trying to reference a book chapter (I have the title for this). But the book's title is not yet confirmed and neither is the order of the chapters, or the size of the book (meaning page numbers ...
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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 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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Which year do I use for an in-text APA citation?
The first year is when the data was collected: 2013
The second year is when the paper was written: 2015
The third year is when the paper was published: 2017
"In total, 121 women and 61 men completed ...