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Citing a paper for which a corrected version exists online
I need to cite a paper in an upcoming paper and conference talk. The paper appeared in a journal several years ago, and normally I would just cite the version that appeared in the journal. However, ...
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Policy regarding grouping of papers in Google Scholar
Using Google scholar, a researcher can generate a public webpage where all his papers and citations are presented.
Because Google is far from perfect, it is possible to group some papers. For instance ...
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Whom to ask to write a reference?
I earned my Bs.C. in Computer Science five years ago. Two years ago I started taking courses of advanced level from Computer Science department. Now I am thinking about applying to M.Sc. studies ...
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What software to cite in a manuscript, and how?
When writing a manuscript for a scientific article, I often wonder what software I should cite or acknowledge, and how.
The first problem is to make a choice which software to cite. On the one hand, ...
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Should bad prior work be ignored, or cited and criticised?
A high citation rate is desirable in academia. Citing other work doesn't cost much, so citations are cheap to give but desirable to get. That brings me to the question:
If a previous article ...
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How acceptable are self-citations? [duplicate]
How acceptable are self-citations? I noticed that my advisor cites his own work quite much, even when the cited articles are not directly related, e.g. type of analysed data is different. Actually, I ...
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How to politely say in a paper that most of the published research on a topic is by the same person?
My field is cardiovascular epidemiology, and my current research question relates to some risk factor which is supposed to strongly elevate cardiovascular risk in a defined subgroup. However, my data ...
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Citing a paper under review in 2 different conferences
I am currently writing 2 conference papers. One is highly quantitative in nature and the other is absolutely qualitative in nature. I am submitting both papers to conferences having deadlines in the ...
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How to cite in an appendix (and where to put the Citation list) of a PhD thesis?
I have a table of studies and formula per study in the appendix, so sth like
study A E = mc²
study B v = ma
etc. For each study I need to cite a source. Now normally the citation list for ...
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What does a plus sign mean in journal abbreviations?
On this journal title abbreviation list, some abbreviations are followed by a plus sign (+). For example, "Thermophysics and Aeromechanics" is abbreviated "THERMOPHYS AEROMECH+".
What is the ...
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How does one cite WHO apps?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a number of apps, I felt I should keep the question rather general in order to prevent people from attempting to close this question for being too narrow, but I ...
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How can I find if my viXra paper is cited?
I've published a paper in viXra and I would like to know if someone else cited it anywhere, but I don't know how. Is there a kind of global index for citations? Does it include “alternative archives” ...
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How should I cite a website which includes institutional information
I would like to cite a webpage which I am accessing with credentials through my academic institution. In this case (and I've seen this often) my institution is indicated in the url. For example:
http:...
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Checklist for cited references, including nasty details
My personal library (.bib-files) contains references which I gathered from various sources, including academic search engines. This includes problems like:
Some information are missing
Journal names ...
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Citing a Youtube video in New Hart's Rules style?
I'm preparing a paper for publication with Taylor & Francis Group. The journal follows the TF no. 1 style but there is no mention on how to cite a source such an online video. Rather, at the end ...
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Three papers came out on new technique at almost the same time. What order do I cite?
Three papers on a new technique came out at almost the same time. They are all similar and introduce a new method that I use in my research by providing a range of examples of that technique.
Below ...
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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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Do you place endnotes (in vancouver reference style) after colons or before?
I have some references I would like to tie to all the dot points I've written after my colon and hence I thought it would be a good idea to put the relevant references after the colon, in endnote form....
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Reference formulas in non-English text books
In a mathematical paper, is it wise to refer to formulas in a non-English (here: German) text book, under the conditions that:
the text book is standard in its language region
all English text books ...
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Do you include references in your CV?
Some people do not list references/referees at the end of their CV, and simply quote references are available on request. This is more convenient to me for two reasons:
Normally, no reference is ...
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How to reference confidential data in reference list
I'm writing my BA thesis in computer science at a larger company and need to reference a confidential statistics report that has been made available to me in my reference list.
So my question is, how ...
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How to survey recommended course readings?
I am interested in analysing the selection and distribution of course readings given to students of middle eastern studies in universities internationally.
By course readings I am referring to ...
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How can I cite the same reference in successive sentences?
I've just read a paper that cited the same reference in two successive sentences:
This is the first sentence (xxxx 2013). This is the second sentence
(xxxx 2013).
Up until now, I would have ...
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Referencing forum comments and translating citations using the Harvard citation style
I'm using the Harvard citation style for a paper for the first time in my life, and I can't figure out how to cite specific comments on a web forum. Can I simply treat in like any other web resource, ...
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How much background material should a mathematical research paper include?
I've just written my first mathematical research paper. It proves some new results, which while not ground-breaking are (according to an expert in the field) at least somewhat interesting and ...
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How to cite lecture notes? (and should I even do this?)
When learning a new subject, I would frequently use lecture notes found somewhere in the Internet. When writing a paper (or a master thesis, as in my case, but the rules should be similar, I believe) ...
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How do you cite articles from a "database?"
Cochrane reviews are great to cite in academic publications due to their systematic nature but I have no idea how to cite them in APA style because there's no obvious volume or issue to use in the ...
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Is the practice of lab members extensively citing each other's work looked down upon in academia?
In my lab, a few of us submitted our papers independently to a conference last week. We all had referenced each other's work in our papers. I have a concern if this is a bad practice in academia. It ...
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Find out author’s name in foreign writing system (Chinese, etc.)
I have some literature written by Chinese authors who I would like to attribute in my bibliography with their names in Chinese characters (汉字). The problem is that, as the literature itself is not in ...
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Should I add references to conference presentations?
I am preparing a CS conference presentation and wondering how can I handle the references. I am thinking about three different possibilities:
Ignore them!
Just list them at the end of the ...
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Should I mention my reference's university role (administrative) when listing?
I have a list of references in my CV. One of them happens to be the Dean of the graduate school and the other a Vice Chancellor. Both of these roles are administrative and their primary position is ...
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How to decide whether a statement requires citing a reliable source
When writing a paper, I usually face the problem of deciding whether a sentence is cite-able or not. Let's say I am writing about optimization of an algorithm. And I used Java to implement it. So, in ...
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How to tackle the bibliographic work as an entering PhD student?
I'll be starting my PhD in the next fall. I already looked over the internet for advice for a beginner, even read two books on the subjects. Still, there is one point I haven't seen discussed as I ...
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Should I keep generic reference letters from my supervisors?
As for reference letters, I have come across distinct policies.
Some recommend to only give a reference letter for a particular application - it might be tailored to the particular position which the ...
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Practical Tips: Mathematical research and discoveries
How to behave when you have the feeling of working on something innovative? What to do if there is a chance (even the 1%) that your
work is leading you to something original?
For example what if I ...
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How do I cite an unpublished work in my paper? which incidentally is my second submission to the same conference [duplicate]
The problem is I completed a work earlier and did another work which extends this work. However, I haven't got the earlier work published. I plan to send these two papers to a conference but I do not ...
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Good, neutral source for ISBN linking? (on citing books)
In my bibliography, I want to link the ISBN number to an actual website. My question is: which website is recommended to be used? Is there some 'neutral' source that I can expect to be still ...
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Grey literature, point it out as such in the bibliography?
For my project I rely on several sources of information including such that is not peer reviewed (conference proceedings, industry reports, master thesis, interviews). I wonder if I should mark them ...
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Favoring citations in the same journal
I have once, some time ago, received a rejection notice in which the journal editor made what I thought was a peculiar comment. The reviewers all found that the work was good, but one emitted a doubt ...
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How can I cite software documentations?
As my bachelor's thesis, I'm developing some software (a mocking framework for MATLAB). As such, I often need to reference software documentation - both from MATLAB and the software which serves as my ...
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Why does the copy editor want Nature to be “Nature (London)”?
I have noticed that the copy editors of at least two publishers (the American Institute for Physics and American Physical Society) do something weird when they copy-edit my submitted papers. For all ...
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Should you provide citation for an professional organization or learned society?
I am writing a paper in which I refer to a database maintained by a learned society. Something like:
We performed this analysis on 7,195 structures taken at random from the Poisonous Substances ...
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Google Scholar vs other academic search engines
How is Google Scholar compared to other academic search engines and catalogues such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, and universities' own online catalogues--in terms of the following?
comprehensiveness of ...
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How can I find the DOI for an old mathematical paper which is not in English?
(Not sure if this is the right SX site, but math.sx seemed to have no questions concerning DOIs.)
Everything I cite in my thesis has a DOI or URL (I think that's important), but I'm citing an article ...
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How to quote a passage with a punctuation error?
I want to quote the following passage (actually, the original passage as somewhat longer but let's consider this a minimal working example)
Awareness of others, can address affective needs.
but ...
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Citing a funding application in a student thesis
I gave an application for a funded project to a student as reference material for his Masters thesis. He wants to put a reference to this text into his bibliography. What is the necessary "...
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When citing a personal corespondence, is the full name always mentioned?
If you're citing a personal correspondence, e.g.:
"Cats are vicious" (Bill Bobson, personal correspondence, March 12, 2012)
and you continue to use this personal correspondence with a cat expert, ...
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How do I sign my papers?
My name is Jorge Fernández de Cossío Díaz. In my country, we have two last names: the first (Fernández de Cossío) comes from the father side, and the second (Díaz) comes from the mother side.
I have ...
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How is an online article referenced if there is no obvious author?
The referencing style I am using for online newspaper articles is thus:
Karlsen, T.-K. (2013) For scouts, the South American youth tournament is hard slog, not high life. Guardian [Online] 28 January....
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How should I cite products?
This question is closely related to How should I cite a website URL? but more concrete.
I'm currently writing my master thesis. In the section "related work" I give an overview which also includes ...
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