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Statement of Purpose length and bibliography
If the desired length of a SOP is 1.5-2 pages, is it okay to have an extra page for bibliography? (so that I cite books/papers in the formal way)
Clarification: I mean 2 pages of text, plus 1 page of ...
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Visualization tool for paper citations
Does anyone know if there is a tool that takes a paper (pdf) and is able to produce a directed graph of the citations, and if possible take the papers that are cited and use the citations of those ...
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Is an MLA citation needed for a broad description of a poem's theme?
I'm trying to figure out whether I need to cite these poems or not.
“Out, Out—” has its morbid description of a young boy bleeding out and
its underlying theme of death. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” ...
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How large may included parts from other people's work be in an academic paper?
Of course, it is absolutely important to quote all thoughts that did not originate from the author. This makes one think that it would be OK to include works of others when referencing them correctly.
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Is it acceptable to have a research paper with no references?
I (an undergrad) and 2 other profs from my department have been working on something and we were thinking of submitting our work to a conference (a pretty well known one) this week. The fact is there ...
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How should I cite an invited paper?
My discipline is Telecommunication engineering and I am writing a paper for an IEEE journal. I want to cite an invited paper published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. My question do I need ...
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Copyright date or publication date, which one should I cite?
Can't believe I've got to the end of my PhD before asking this one! I want to cite a work whose copyright date is 1996 but whose first paperback edition (the one I'm referencing) is 1999. Which date ...
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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 to automatically import APA references into reference manager?
Related to this question on cross-checking APA citations and references, I often have an existing list of APA formatted references. This might come from a document from a collaborator or it might just ...
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How to check citations and references match in a manually prepared document with APA author (year) citations?
I like to use bibliographic software (e.g., Endnote, BibTex, etc.) to manage my references. However, sometimes I am working on an existing article that has been written with APA citations and ...
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APA: How to cite chapter and edition in book
I was wondering the correct format for citing when including both book edition and the page range of the chapter.
From owl purdue on citing chapter (APA):
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year ...
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How to cite (Chicago author-date) papers your paper is about
I'm writing a philosophy essay. The essay is required to answer a particular question by analyzing, in turn, four particular philosophy essays; the essay needs to follow the outline below.
Restate ...
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Can I cite an unpublished Master Thesis?
As title above.
This thesis is only available at the author's blog, though it is indeed a formal Master thesis. If I can cite it, how may I fill in all the blanks?
My concern is even if I cite it, ...
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Cite a developed version of an algorithm (citation chain)?
My work is based on algorithm A that is actually a developed version of algorithm B. When I cite algorithm A, should I also cite algorithm B?
Due to the conference page limit, I prefer not to cite ...
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Attribution when creating images from other sources
I'm writing a paper where I've created several images using clipart from various sources. Some sources are Creative Commons, some just require attribution while others require a specific disclaimer (e....
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Is there such thing as too many references for one paper?
I'm currently reviewing a paper that has an uncommonly large number of references compared to the average number for that particular venue (more than 60 versus around 30). This is a regular paper, not ...
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What is the volume of this article in a journal?
I have this line about the article:
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2007, 6:16 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-6-16
I think the volume is 6.
Then what is 16?
How should you correctly cite the Bibliography in ...
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Which month to cite?
Which month to cite, the month of acceptance or the month on which the paper was published online?
I am using bibtex and a custom bibliographic style where specifying month is not required. However, ...
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Should I abbreviate the author names due to the page limitation?
While I am writing the references for my paper, I usually copy and paste the bibliographic information and use it directly. AFAIK, most of them are in the full version, meaning that all the author ...
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Conference Title - shall abbreviation and year be listed uniformly?
I'm just had a look at my citations and they are in an aweful state. Most conference papers that I imported into my citation manager have different styles, e.g.:
IEEEE Conference on Emerging Txxx ...
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"Soft" ways to contribute to the research community in a new and growing field
I am doing my PhD research in a new multidisciplinary field within Computer Science. It is new in the sense that there are still no tools/implementations publicly available and several workshops co-...
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How to cite a phd thesis that was published as a book?
What information is important to provide when citing from a PhD thesis that has appeared as book?
The publisher (even if it is a 'dubious' one that might vanish in the near future)
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How to write a good PhD literature review?
I am in the early stages of my PhD and I am trying to put together a literature review of my topic. My intention is that this review will eventually be included in my thesis, something like "the ...
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Label based in text citation
In german computer science it is quite common to use citations like [HoBo12] or [HoBo12, pp.1-4] for say, Hoy, Jane; Boy, John 2010: The great story. The rules for composing this label depend on the ...
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How should I cite presentation slides?
A friend has made some nice slides that I could reuse (similar topics). He sent me the slides and commented that if I use them and could cite him that would be nice, I asked him how should I cite the ...
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When you reference an article, is it always expected that you have actually read it?
Naturally I would say "of course", but my current situation makes me doubt.
In my paper I'm briefly covering various alternative cryptographic constructions. I am (of course) familiar with all of ...
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How to avoid overly extensive introduction of otherwise unnecessary preliminaries for a minor result?
For my PhD thesis I have proven a minor result but with the help of a theory that is far apart from my actual subjects.
To have my work self-contained up to a certain level and to make my proof ...
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Best practices for organizing digital and physical articles
As a thirsty graduate student, I've amassed a burgeoning collection of research articles in both paper and digital formats. Right now I manage PDFs and references with Zotero, but I'm still searching ...
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Is it illegal to cite books that were illegally downloaded or accessed from a library?
How illegal is it to cite books that were illegally downloaded?
If they aren't available in the university library, if you can't really afford the books (maybe you will make one reference in one ...
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How to cite from a paper using a different citation style?
When writing a paper where you are citing from another paper which uses a different citation style, how should one cite portions of text that contain in-text citations? For example
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Citing low quality papers (solutions) in surveys?
I sometimes find papers that aim to solve the same problem that I am working on, but these papers are of terrible quality. Some of these papers:
introduce wrong solutions,
re-introduce a solution ...
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How should we sort the names of the authors of a paper (with two authors) when they have the same contribution?
Me and one of my friends have recently written a paper and we have almost the same contribution. Is there any conventional way to express this and show this ?
How do we sort the name of the authors ...
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Reference a web page by author and year: which date to use in citation; publication date or revision date?
I came to a web page where it says beneath:
Updated 3 September 2011 (first published August 2002)
When I cite this should the year be 2002 or 2011?
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reviewing a review: Referencing
I have been reading a paper and in the Background section the author said something like:
Recent studies suggest that...
and then gave a citation.
I went to that references section, took the name ...
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Can you cite a workshop or conference in a paper?
Some time ago, I went to a workshop/conference on the specific topic in my field. It was a small event, with not proceedings published. I would like to discuss it in an upcoming paper, in order to ...
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Style for first introduction sentence - citation required for lurid statement?
I'm trying to write my first introduction sentence, which should be catchy. I came up with a sentence along the lines of "imagine the world without this super thing, all these things wouldn't be ...
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What does YEAR: NNff means in research papers? eg 1965: 47ff
I am reading a book called Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, in which there is a section called further reading. It states the following:
Chomsky (1965: 47ff, 1980: 234ff, ...
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How do I cite a result that I've only seen stated without a proof, and I prove myself?
I am writing my PhD thesis in mathematics.
It happens frequently that I use results that I don't have a reference for except
textbooks stating "it is easily seen that ..." or "it is well-known that.....
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How to properly reference a source when almost exact copy?
I am currently writing a piece of work, mainly studying some theory developed in a particular article. I did my best to be clear whether it was one of my own comment concerning the subject or material,...
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Citing in two connected sentences
I read the answers to this, however I'm searching for an elaborated answer on how two (or more) sencentes are obviously from one source, and hence can be cited with one citation at the end of all ...
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Citing ideas but extending information
Imagine the following situation: Mr. Expert writes that it is important to have A,B & C. Dr. Smart writes it is important to have A, Y, Z. As both are using the arguments to lead to different ...
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How can I cite a workbook?
I want to cite someting from this workbook. How can I cite it? The year is 2009 but what should I put between brackets if there is no specific author?
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Should student or supervisor be corresponding author for publications based on student research?
Papers published from an academic project (MSc or PhD) usually have two authors; the first author is the student who mainly conducted the research, and the second author is the professor who ...
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How to reference studies mentioned in a paper without having to read the original papers?
I'm review the literature at the moment. Now I'm reading a paper that mention other studies. How can I reference them without reading the original papers?
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What should you ask an applicant's reference?
When recruiting a student or post-doc to join my group, I trim down the list of applicants to a few names (3–5) by looking at CV's, research/teaching statements, existing publications, etc. Then, I ...
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What should I do if I found a citation error in a published paper?
I've found a mistake in a published paper, and am unsure what to do now.
I was looking at all cited articles from a paper over 10 years old, and found one that is citing the paper in error.
A ...
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Borrowing figures from the literature
In my dissertation, I have felt the need to illustrate some ideas with the help of figures and illustrations which I have found available in existing literature. I have borrowed a number of them and I ...
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How to cite my own submitted but not yet published work?
I plan to submit part of my current work to conference A. I then wish to submit my whole work to a more prestigious conference B. As for the part submitted to A, there is no point of repeating it ...
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Can I reliably determine the quality of a journal by checking citation numbers in Google Scholar?
I have recently come across this journal International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
The journal provides acceptance notification within 15 days. This raised red flags,...
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Preprint citations + Paper citations =?
Given that in many areas the peer-review process is quite lengthy (even a couple of years), it often happens that, by the time the journal version of a paper appears, the preprint version (e.g. arxiv) ...
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