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How should I include substantial background definitions and notation from another paper?
For my new paper, I need to use the notation and definitions of another paper that I wrote in 2019. The notation and definitions take about 3 pages.
I really don't know what to do. Can I copy and ...
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What is the academic consensus on footnote citations? [closed]
Not really found a good answer on this online.
There seems to be a wide variation in the usage of footnoes in publications. While some authors use an APA format for every citation, even non-academic, ...
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Severity of plagiarism [closed]
In my previous question I asked about being accused of plagiarism.
Finally, the examiners have sent me the pages where I have not put the sources. These are 8 pages in total where I accidentally ...
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How to verify my personal email address on Google Scholar (retired Emeritus Professor without university email address)
I have been a retired Emeritus Professor for 10 years. Thus I have no university email address anymore; I only have my personal email address. Google Scholar has pages and pages of my articles ...
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Citing an encyclopedia in another language
I would like to cite the following page from an encyclopedia
https://encyclopediasindhiana.org/article.php?Dflt=%D8%A7%D9%BD%D9%8A+%DA%8F%DA%AA%D8%B1
but I am unsure about how to do it. I can't even ...
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How to add bibliographic data to a Google Scholar article?
A recent article of mine has just been successfully crawled by the Google Scholar robots; however, since the article is quite large (>40 MB), only the abstract and some basic journal metadata was ...
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Does a literary or film allusion, done for effect, require a citation?
First of all, I know that academic writing is ordinarily not a place to jam-pack in large quantities of literary, theatrical, film, or other pop-culture allusions, references, or parodies, but ...
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What is the APA7 style for a translated quotation?
My field is in the humanities, and I need to quote a long passage (around 40 words) written in French inside of a paper I write in English.
Naturally, I would like to quote a (personally) translated-...
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Is it acceptable to reference a talk in a thesis?
Sometimes respected members of a research community may say something interesting and pertinent in a talk, but the nugget of insight might never make it into a peer-reviewed publication. Nevertheless ...
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How to cite the correct page number from the IEEE Access Journal?
I want to cite the IEEE Access journal including the page number.
For instance the following article has page numbers, but they are in the six figure range (i.e 198912 for the first page).
Surely this ...
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How to decide which papers to cite when just providing a historical review of a problem?
For context I am an electrical engineer and this is a paper for an electrical engineering conference.
I am currently writing my first research paper, and there have been many papers published in the ...
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How to find old article "B. R. McGarvey, Transition Metal Chemistry 3, 89 (1966)" [duplicate]
I have encountered some experimental results on a molecule ($[V(H_2O)_6]^{2+}$) in various articles. However, the results are not original, and in each article they refer to "B. R. McGarvey, ...
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What referencing style is this?
My school has provided me with a referencing system but has not stated where it is from. I would prefer to use an online tool such as MyBib however, I don't know what my school's referencing system is....
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Case where superscripted footnote reference numbers may be in brackets or parentheses
Is there a particular case when footnote or endnote reference numbers placed in brackets or parentheses? Is this done in block quotations to distinguish reference numbers contained in the original ...
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When using block quotation to cite a secondary source, what's a clean way to distinguish any native citations within it from the block's end citation?
Working with a text that makes extensive use of a secondary source that will be given in block quotation and cited. The secondary source, however, contained many original source citations which are to ...
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What's the name of this citation style?
I am working on a research paper, and the journal I am submitting to requires a specific citation style for references. However, I am having trouble finding the correct format for one of my references ...
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How to rewrite sentences based on the SAGE Vancouver style citation?
Based on the SAGE Vancouver style in line citations are superscript and should be after puncutations. Also no space is allowed between citations and words. How can I rewrite example this sentence ...
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Cite chapter without number in IEEE
I'm writing a report where I need to use the following document as a reference: https://ibex-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/03_reference/index.html
I want to cite this reference as accurately as ...
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Suspicious referee report, are "suggested citations" from a paper mill?
Our paper contains a small bit of application of graph theory to something related to biophysics. A referee claims that we should mention other applications of graph theory to biophysics in the ...
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Are there any ethical or legal issues when printing large texts from primary sources? [closed]
I am writing a secondary History textbook. It is quite nearly done, but I am required to integrate some primary source materials, such as diaries, log entries, letters, etc.
The textbook spans the ...
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Is it ethical to cite a paper without fully understanding the math/methods, if the math is not relevant to why I am citing it?
I'm writing an article for a university assignment, and I am essentially looking for sources to support fairly surface level points. Two of the points I am searching for is evidence of diffusion ...
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Citations don’t show up on Google Scholar [closed]
Google Scholar has successfully listed a paper published two weeks ago. However, most of the references are not included in the citation counts of the papers that are referenced. Has that happened to ...
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How do you document in ASA style a journal that the first page is the cover page?
I am citing the article Solving the Mystery of Military Mental Health: A Call to Action from this link.
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/solving-mystery-military-mental-health-call-action
My ...
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Missed a citation which has a solution to the problem that I worked on
About 4 years ago, before I started my PhD, I published a paper which used a method to improve an existing result. There were 2 papers on the existing result and method which I used for my work and ...
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How should I cite a paper on arxiv correctly?
I'm writing my thesis. For example, this paper on arxiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473
I'm using Overleaf. I used Export Bibtex Citation on arxiv and paste the information into the .bib file. The ...
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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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What do you think about citations such as "for more details see e.g. (Authors, et al)
I am currently writing my masters thesis. I'm fully aware of the academic guidelines when it comes to citations.
Yet, I have a more nuanced question that maybe more stylistic in nature: when ...
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Should I cite open source software libraries I used to create my bachelor thesis project? [duplicate]
I am finishing my bachelor's thesis, and I built an explainable ai and data visualization tool.
For that, I used libraries like d3.js, svelte, tailwindcss, docker, nginx, fastapi, pytorch, tensorflow ...
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How to cite one volume of a book which has been published in different volumes (APA 7)?
How to cite one volume of book which has been published in different volumes, following the APA 7 guidelines?
Imagine the 3 volumes of the book Quantum Theory of Fields by Steven Weinberg were ...
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De Gruyter and De Gruyter Mouton: the difference
What is the difference between the publisher "De Gruyter" and the publisher "De Gruyter Mouton"?
It seems that the main publishing company name is "De Gruyter", and it ...
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Are there any papers where two (or more) authors share the same full name?
Because of reasons, I'm curious to know whether there are any simple examples of papers where two or more authors have the same full name.
(To be clear: I am only interested in exact full-name matches....
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Citing a lecture
I recently attended a talk and the talk was recorded and posted to YouTube, and the slides are available on the author's webpage. I would like to cite this talk in some work I am doing, and there are ...
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In google scholar my book and its 2.5k citations is assigned to the wrong author: what can I do?
In 2008, myself, Bill Langdon and Nic McPhee wrote a book entitled "A field guide to genetic programming". We made it freely available on the internet so as to maximally benefit the field of ...
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How do I customise MS Word 'manage sources' (creating reference lists) to do what I want it to do? [closed]
I am using the 'manage sources' facility in Microsoft Word to create a reference list/bibliography (Harvard) but am experiencing a number of problems such as:
I cannot include italics for species ...
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Software tool to identify clusters in academic papers?
I know connected papers, web of knowledge, research rabbits, but they all either only seem look at one or a limited amount of papers and visualise new papers related to them.
What I want to do is to ...
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Google Scholar is assigning citations for my paper to a completely different paper
My paper's arxiv id is 2008.09164. The title is "PyTorch Metric Learning".
When I search for the above arxiv id, Google Scholar retrieves an entirely different paper.
You can see here that ...
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Adding all entries in bibliography of a research paper automatically other than using Excite and wos [duplicate]
Every research paper had a bibliography at the end carrying various earlier research papers, books, web articles, etc. The user has to click on each one separately and then, through Google or Semantic ...
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Can I cite a report that says it "should not be used or relied upon by anyone else"?
I have found a report with a lot of useful data in it. It is very easy to get ahold of; the organization that ordered it actively promotes it on their website. I would like to cite it. However, the ...
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How to cite an image from a website like this and which part should it be under?
could anyone please tell me how to cite a picture properly from places like this? https://d2l.ai/_images/lstm-0.svg
The current latex code is.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics[]{imgs/lstm-0....
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How to cite the author of an image if you're using numbers for citation?
Like instead of saying: "image taken from [1]"
Is there a better way?
I'm using Zotero linked to Overleaf. Just in case this information is somehow relevant.
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Is it acceptable to use non-English references in a paper? [duplicate]
I have a paper extracted from my thesis. Since English is not my first language, a few of references are non-English. I have also designed a model based on those non-English references. Now, I want to ...
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Citing "Academic Editor" in Journal Article
MDPI lists "academic editors" for some of their papers, e.g.:
Is this name to be reproduced in the bibliography when using common citation styles?
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Where can I find the editors of Machine Learning conferences proceedings?
I am in the process of publishing an article in a journal. The editorial team is asking me to add editors to many references coming from the proceedings of conferences such as AISTATS, MICCAI, ICLR, ...
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Should I cite an encyclopedia or an article for a subject I don't know anything about?
In an article I am writing, I need to know the number of deaths in a certain war, in a period of time I am not very familiar with.
The information is in Britannica, so I wanted to cite it, but a ...
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Do faculties look at h-index including or excluding self-citations?
At the early stage of an academic career, it can be that the researcher's h-index is largely driven by self-citations. It is the case for me at the 1st year postdoc stage. I've got a few peer-reviewed ...
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Is the HAL-id shown on a paper awaiting moderation definitive?
I deposited a paper on HAL-archive yesterday, and it's now "awaiting moderation", so it's not online yet. It has an assigned HAL-id. I am writing an application that will expire before the ...
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How should you cite yourself when there are more than 15 authors?
I am not one of the primary authors of the article, and there are more than 15 authors for the paper I am referring to.
How should I include the paper in my CV? Should all authors be cited? How can I ...
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How to reference your own dataset in a figure or table caption?
I made several plots and figures. About 20% of data I used to make a plot came from papers of other people, which I'm surely going to cite in a common manner. But the other 80% percent of data I ...
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Can I add a new reference to my accepted paper? [duplicate]
My paper was accepted and the journal asked me for corrections before publication. After corrections they will give it a doi number. Can I add a new reference at this stage or is it a risk?
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Structured plagiarism by using similar citations in a paragraph
I cited a paragraph of an article, which classified some model according to different categories. For each class it contains related work from the literature. Is it plagiarism that some citations ...
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