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Is "e.g." ever needed in parenthetical citations?
It seems to me that "e.g." is rarely needed in parenthetical citations because readers assume that the works listed are examples taken from all works on the topic. For example:
"This ...
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Software to draw illustrative figures in papers
I would like to have suggestions of good software for drawing illustrations in research papers. I already know about Xfig, but this works only on Linux and is at times, clunky when it comes to text. ...
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Citational nationalism: citing only groups within the same country
This is a trend that I have noticed more and more over the years as a reviewer for a number of journals: a group of authors from country X submits a manuscript, where the vast majority (if not all) of ...
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How often is a paper, that once had been forgotten and rarely referenced or regarded, rediscovered many years later and referenced heavily?
Before the internet, especially a few centuries ago, it was quite common to rediscover a work even post-mortem. Some authors were unfortunate and didn't get to see recognition of their contributions.
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Citing "common knowledge" blogs?
I am a masters student in the process of writing a thesis in computer science.
In particular, there is someone who works in industry who is probably one of, if not the world leading experts in a ...
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Do references in the research papers' state of the art section need to be referred in chronological order?
Do references in the research papers' state of the art section need to be referred in chronological order?
In other words, is it important that the state of the art section mentions the papers of ...
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What tried and tested possibilities are there to create a poster without using LaTeX? [duplicate]
What tried and tested possibilities are there to set up a (nice) poster for a conference without using LaTeX?
I find LaTeX always cumbersome for that purpose and I am curious about alternatives.
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Lab colleague uses cracked software. Should I report it?
I've just (accidentally) found that one of our colleagues in the lab (who is a graduate student) uses a cracked piece of software on his personal laptop (We were talking near his station and a pop up ...
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Citing your own related (unpublished but under review) research necessary?
The main idea of this questions is to have two papers under review simultaneously which are somewhat related but do not rely on each other in any way (except in the temporal sequence of discovery for ...
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Would I italicize a treaty in Chicago style? [closed]
For example;
War crimes, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
OR
War crimes, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
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Should a conference abstract submission contain citations if current research is an extension of other research?
I am working on submitting an abstract to a conference. My research is an extension of other published research (paper B) at my university. In the abstract, I do have a short summary of paper B since ...
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How to cite oneself as co-author without all names, for graduate school CV application?
I saw someone posed similar question before, but I would like to know for biostatistics/clinical trials papers, if my name is listed in the 10th authors, how should I cite the work without mentioning ...
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How can I improve my paper with mostly original contents and only two references?
I'm collaborating with another person on a public-key cryptosystem that we intend to publish. I could only think of two references (one to the 1976 Diffie-Hellman paper, and one to SHA-3 FIPS-202), ...
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Is it ethical to use proprietary (closed-source) software for scientific computation?
I have data from an ordinary scientific experiment. Now, in order to analyse the data, the most convenient way for me is to use some proprietary, closed-source software.
Is it ethical to use such ...
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Got accused of plagiarism due to a reference lost during copying my own writing [closed]
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I was assigned to write an autobiography for a course and copied some sentences from a personal statement for an application.
Those sentences in turn included material by somebody else, which ...
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Free alternative to kahoot live quizzes?
Is there any free (ideally open-source) alternative to Kahoot for making live quizzes?
I used to like Kahoot for live classroom quizzes, but recently they've changed their pricing model to only allow ...
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Is LibreTexts allowable as a reference for formal research?
I am currently writing a paper that has a potential to be published. It is mathematics-heavy, so a lot of the sources I encountered are something like libretexts, paul's online notes, etc. My main ...
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How should I properly mention URL links in a thesis? [duplicate]
For example, I have an appendix X, in which I wrote:
Looking on different websites, a list of models of X was compiled for Y purpose. These websites are:
\begin{description}[noitemsep]
\item \url{...
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Usage software documentation as a valid reference?
I'm in the process of writing my paper and have found a very helpful answer from a luminary in this field on Stackoverflow. Logically, the answer cannot be taken as a valid source. However, I found ...
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How do you reference Amazon - the company? [closed]
How do you reference Amazon - the company - in a bibliography?
The guides online have examples for citing a product on Amazon, but how do you cite the company itself?
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Citing Github Copilot
I used GitHubCopilot for code completion for a thesis and I am required to cite all usage of AI. Is there anything that I can cite for using github copilot? Have they released a paper or do I just ...
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Being a reviewer for a conference I found the exact same claim of my last year paper that got rejected
Last year, I submitted a paper to the conference XX'22 in January. We made an Arxiv preprint.
And the paper got rejected. We got very good reviews, except there were some imprecisions that we needed ...
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Automatic citation management - am I doing it wrong?
I am currently working on my PhD thesis (evolutionary computational biology). Naturally, I have lots of citations, and I use Mendeley's automatic web importer, reference manager, and Word plugin to ...
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Which software can check on false references and incorrect citation on student papers?
I'm a TA at a medium-sized university in Asia, and as part of my routine, I randomly review student papers before using Turnitin for plagiarism checks. During these reviews, I've come across numerous ...
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Do I have to cite my own paper?
I wrote a paper in which I mentioned all citations for definitions that are not mine, and did not cite my previous paper's definition or my supervisor's previous papers as both of us are authors.
My ...
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What aspects of software shared with a quantitative paper are the most important?
I'd like to get the software-sharing aspect of my research paper right. (This empirical paper in health economics relies on code for modelling and simulation.) Besides open-sourcing the code on GitHub,...
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How to give credit for a picture I modified from a scientific article?
I plan to show a picture in my scientific paper. This picture is a modification of pictures from another scientific paper. How can I annotate, explain and quote the picture ?
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Is Failure to Cite OpenAI in an AI/LLM Research Paper a Valid Reason for Rejection?
As a reviewer, I'm currently evaluating a research paper in the AI/Large Language Models (LLM) field. The paper itself is quite comprehensive and meets most of the standard criteria in terms of ...
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If you know the original source for something you found in a more recent paper, should you cite both?
The situation I am asking about goes like this: I am writing a math paper that I hope to publish, and want to use a certain math technique that I found in a paper from 2021. In that paper, the author ...
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Is it okay to mention we're citing an article only because a reviewer told us to?
In a recent review, one reviewer said we must rework the paper in light of two other papers. One paper was a highly valuable suggestion, and we've enthusiastically taken it on board. However, the ...
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Why is it acceptable to cite unpublished works?
If an article, theorem, etc. is unpublished, presumably the work is only available to people who track down the author and get a draft copy. Today we have arXiv and can find many preprints on the ...
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Does a listing of a publication on a National Institute of Health (NIH) website mean anything in particular?
Back in 2012 I published a couple of papers in my not-to-be PhD and, very occasionally, I do a quick google search to see how they're being used (although I often can't now access the citing articles ...
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When to add "in proceedings" and when to not in references
I have two papers whose citation look like this:
Elhabbash, A., Nundloll, V., Elkhatib, Y., Blair, G. S., and Marco, V.
S. (2020). An ontological architecture for principled and automated
system of ...
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Why do many talented scientists write horrible software?
I am a software engineer and I have been working with people with academic backgrounds for several years. Many times, I've noticed that (even otherwise brilliant scientists) produce code of extremely ...
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Review invitation of an article that overly cites me and the journal
I was invited to review a paper for a well-known SAGE Journal in my field. The editor of the journal invited me specifying that “I was highly recommended as a reviewer” by the authors.
The review is ...
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Software for creating hand-written slides that are revealed gradually
I am looking for software to create slides like these.
I want everything to be hand-drawn/hand-written.
I don't want to draw/write anything at the time of presentation, but I want parts of the slides ...
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Why cite the access time of a URL if half the URLs become dead anyways?
What is the actual goal of citing the "access date/time" of when you access a URL? For example:
Bruce Bower (July 17, 2010). "Serbian site may have hosted first copper makers". ...
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If your field is so isolated that nobody cites your work, does that make you irrelevant?
A group of researchers work in a problem that no one else works on, hence these researchers are cited only by themselves. They cite other papers, too.
How does the academia consider these cases?
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Is it worth pointing out missed works in already published papers?
I have come across several works that omitted the citation of relevant related literature, but clearly are camera-ready versions already accepted/presented at a conference or journal.
Of course, due ...
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Is it okay to include modified source code from Github with due credit in masters thesis?
I apologize if a similar question has been asked and answered before or if the question does not belong here, however, I am in a major dilemma at the moment and extremely stressed out over plagiarism ...
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When do you include the nth in front of the conference when citing?
This question is easiest to ask by showing an example. There are conferences that are cited like 5th International Conference on ABC and some like Interational Conference on XYZ.
Why are some ...
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Email other people to cite your paper? [duplicate]
I noticed that someone posted a paper on arxiv that has a good overlap with a paper of mine, including some key inspirations/lemmas. However, it seems like there was no reference to my work or the ...
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Referee for two papers by the same author: can I let them know?
I am a referee for two papers by the same author: can I acknowledge in the second report (the first was almost ready when I was invited to referee the second one) my report to the first paper?
To give ...
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Is there a simple way to bulk download a large number of papers from a list of references
I've got a library of 1200 references I'm using for a systematic review. Now I need to download the PDFs of all these references, which will take days if I do it manually. Is there a simple way to ...
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Use of colon and other symbols in citation
I'm currently working on a uni assignment regarding a piece of academic work, but I'm confused about some of the punctuation and symbols used in citations. 1) Consider this extract: "“phenomena ...
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How can I deal with low-key plagiarism?
I am relatively new to academic publishing. However, there is an uncomfortable situation which I have already encountered multiple times by now (about five). It is what I would call "low-key ...
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How can you find papers that have the largest bibliography (i.e., the highest number of references)? [closed]
Does anybody keep track of such things? How would one go about finding out about something like that?
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Peer review: Is this "citation tower" a bad practice?
I am peer-reviewing an article "A" and I found something interesting. The authors use a mathematical lemma (which is just an inequality) for which they cite article "B". I have ...
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When submitting a paper, do we need to cite articles from the journal where we are submitting?
My colleagues and I are trying to publish a paper since July of this year. Unfortunately, we have sent the papers to three journals, but on all three occasions, the response we got from the editor was ...
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Is 18 references in a 18 page article too little?
I'm about to submit my paper which is about predicting the apparent geothermal gradient in a country using a machine learning algorythm, the main motivation is the fact that the country only has heat ...
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