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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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Is it common to cite the numbers of results a search engine yields as evidence for the prevalence of something online?
Is it common in academia to include the number of results a Google search on a keyword yields as an evidence for the prevalence of something online?
I'm not intending to base my research paper on ...
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If I use results from a source I don't have access to, should I include it in references?
Let's say, I am writing a paper. I am reading paper A that cites results in Paper/Book B. I do not have access to Paper/Book B.
In the list of references, do I include only A? A and B?
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How does Google Search know which paper you have cited?
Pick a random paper using Google Search, for instance
Click on the Cited By link, and you will see:
a list of writings, ranging from thesis, conference paper, arXiv paper, etc. etc....
published on ...
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Why is citing to old publications seemingly the norm even in fields where much research becomes obsolete as technology progresses?
While doing literature review towards my Master's dissertation I noticed that many recent papers in my field (robotics/computer vision) frequently cite publications produced a decade or even more ago.
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How are textbooks meant to be referenced?
I'm studying maths, and I've found it beneficial to write my notes as if I were writing a textbook for someone else's self study - forces me to understand the material to some extent.
It's of course ...
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Do you have to cite your own pre-print?
I am writing a paper that is based on previous work I have done that I have published as a pre-print. I am submitting it to a conference. However it is significantly improved and different. The ...
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Suitable citation style for dealing with many de-identified sources, interviews and personal correspondence?
Background:
I am writing a paper analysing various organisations that I need to de-identify.
For my analysis I need to cite three types of sources:
Publicly available published works that identify ...
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How to deal with "cans of worms" of references in publications
I have found an algorithm that solved a puzzle in an unexpected way, so I'm planning to publish it on arXiv.
After some online research I learned that the puzzle belongs to a larger class of more or ...
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Referencing Non-Equations ("See Eq. (15)/See Ineq. (15)")
When I write something like
x is a stochastic function of y:
x ~ N(2y, 3) (1),
how do I refer back to that... non-equation? Do I still put "see Eq. (1)" although (1) is not ...
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Plagiarism and credible sources
Plagiarism is the reuse of other's materials without proper credit and acknowledgement [1]
Credible sources are vaguely defined, but it can be attributed to verifiable facts in the literature [2]
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Citation policies: original papers or recent monographs?
When referencing previous results, should one cite the original
paper(s) or a recent comprehensive monograph?
Specifically, in my area of interest (a relatively recent branch of mathematics), in ...
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How to reuse algorithms from previous paper
In the past, I wrote a paper which included 2 algorithms A and B. Both of them were presented and fully explained. Moreover, B was built based on A, in other words, reader must know about A in order ...
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What to do when your idea turns out to be an old one
I learned yesterday that an idea (let's call it Idea A) I came up with on my own and that will appear in a paper I'm writing actually appeared in a paper 15 years ago. (My field is math, I'm a PhD ...
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When should cited author names be included in the substantive, rather than parenthetical, part of a citing sentence?
To give credit where credit is due I strive to make it clear where ideas of others, which I use/refer to in my papers/work, are from. For this I cite and quote and this question is about the correct ...
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How should I cite the ministry in my own country in APA?
In my research paper, I have cite from a curriculum published by the Ministry of Education in my country. Should I cite the name of the ministry in my own language (i.e. Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı; MEB as ...
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How to Cite Hardware in Scientific Articles?
I am writing a scientific article. In the "materials and methods" section I must specify the hardware I used, namely an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (I also specified the details of its features).
Now ...
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Can I use equations from a paper with proper citation?
I am writing a research paper where I try to produce the results by using the machinery described in a different paper, i.e. testing their equations on my model.
Is it justified to use their equations ...
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How to introduce multiple authors of a research paper in content?
I want to introduce the findings of a case study in my report, but it has four authors and I would like name them in when introducing it.
What would be the best way to do this, or is the below ...
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How should I cite a tool or a library in my article?
When using an online library, tool, framework or something similar, what is the proper way to reference it in an article?
(I work in Computer Science). For example, I want to say that many popular ...
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Is it preferable to cite the dissertation or a publication based on the dissertation?
I'm currently in the process of writing a literature review for a methodology and I came across two relevant works by the same author. The first is their dissertation which includes expanded details ...
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IEEE Referencing: Same source, different page numbers
I'm fairly new to IEEE referencing and have a slight dilemma.
If I'm going to be citing the same paper twice in my writing but want to cite specific pages of it, do I include the source twice in the ...
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Citing my own thesis in the extracted paper
I am going to extract a paper from my MSc thesis. But I am not sure how to point out that this paper is the synopsis of my thesis. What is your suggestion? In which section should I refer to the ...
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Is there a way to see which papers have used a particular R package?
I'm a new user of an R package (tidy text mining) and I'd like to see what papers have used this package as examples for the kind of things I can do with it. Is there a way to do this?
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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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How to reference observational evidence?
Talking about work practices at a business, and hearing first hand from the manager how the employees conduct their work - how can I reference this anecdotal evidence in an academic paper? ...
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Reusing a codebook/technique in a new publication
I have published a paper, hereby referred as "the first paper", where I lay out a conceptual framework that categorises and evaluates, let's say, policies. This article got published with a ...
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How to properly cite a domain-specific result of a generic concept from a paper?
I plan to cite two sets of equations (referred to as Equations X and Y) from a paper. Equations X that hold for a model look like textbook results to me, but the authors give a lengthy explanation ...
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How to formally report database literature search results?
Years ago, I seen an interesting article that made reference to database search results. The author run a few queries through PubMed and reported on the number of records. This was a neat introduction ...
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What facts constitutes as citation-worthy
If I were to state a fact that is simply a part of a field, do I need to cite a scientific article that supports this? Like, let's say I write something like this:
"... tryptamine being a ...
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Convince coauthors of reducing self-citations
I am writing a paper jointly with coauthors from another research group. In their contributions to the paper they include a lot of self-citations, many of which are (in my opinion) irrelevant.
How ...
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Should historical data be considered ambigious if not proven as fact?
Simple question, if there is few data points that allow concrete hypothesis (ancient history has many), should the information always be accompanied by some sort of disclaimer? A example would be you ...
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Can you exclude issue numbers in references based on APA 6th edition?
I'm currently working on my thesis (communication science), and I'm wondering about the issue number in the reference list.
A teacher told me that I don't need to include the issue number. But I ...
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What guidelines exist for volume of evidence in an undergraduate business assignment?
When teaching undergraduate students, I find freshmen students to be mostly unaware with the idea of including evidence to support the author's opinion. That is, they write something like:
Leaders ...
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Is there an implied requirement to include citations?
As part of a freshman Computer Science course, I've been assigned the task of writing an MLA-format essay on a relatively fundamental subject within the field. The instructor stated that "This essay ...
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Where should I place the citation in this sentence?
I have the following sentence, where the citation refers to the first part of the sentence. Because of how it appears in the formatting of my paper, and how it reads, I would like to have the citation ...
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Referencing others' ideas in introductions and conclusions?
Should citations be used in introductions and conclusions if they just introduce and summarize the body of the essay where all others' ideas are referenced in details?
Ideas that are not discussed ...
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Presentation of an algorithm
Background:
I recently wrote a paper on the algorithm A that I developed for predicting fault events in the machine. The algorithm is tested, evaluated on a machine data set.
I developed another ...
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Writing an Original State of the Art Section When There Are Recent (Meta-)Surveys for the Topic
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In many fields, it is customary that every paper has a section describing the state of the art of the field, to give a background and show familiarity with related works. While sometimes, this ...
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How to name and cite different versions of Microsoft Kinect?
There are at least two types of Kinect cameras, one is called Kinect for Xbox 360 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#/media/File:Xbox-360-Kinect-Standalone.png)
and another one is called Kinect for ...
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Should I provide references to a function which is used as part of a programming language?
I am writing a paper, which in the application used a function from a programming language (in this case, it is OpenCV function canny edge detection). When is or is not appropriate to explain the ...
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Can I cite a secondary source if the primary source is available?
Assume that there are two papers A and B that give two different approaches to the same problem.
Paper A. This paper presents the method I used in my assignment.
Paper B. As reported in paper C (...
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What is the standard way to include introduction and references parts to a masters thesis?
I have seen that students have two ways to write their thesis,
They have a separate chapter to write an introduction to their thesis. This chapter usually consists of a literature review of their ...
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Cleaning up/Uniformize bibliography for long document
I was wondering whether existed some software that would take as input a text file bibliography (for instance a bib file if you use bibtex), and that run it through google scholar (or any other ...
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Style guides on structured/ordered bibliography?
Edit: The best guideline I have found so far is the Chicago Manual of Style 16th ed, section 14.58 "DIVIDING A BIBLIOGRAPHY INTO SECTIONS" (I have boldfaced the part which best answers my ...
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Should I reproduce figures from other publications in my thesis to make it more self-contained?
I am working on a computer science master's thesis wherein I occasionally cite figures and tables from other works. Currently, the way I am doing this is something like
Foo et al. (2021) visualise ...
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Methodology Question: How to deal with others having written about similar topic?
Basically, I am wondering how one is to deal with other scholars that have written about a similar topic or have covered similar/the same phenomenon (my field are the social sciences/humanities). What ...
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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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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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Is it bad-practice to have a high citation to content ratio in academic writing? [duplicate]
I'm writing a high school history textbook. While writing my book, I'm finding its becoming very heavily laden with sources. If I used Turabian's footnote style, they tend to fill half the page. ...
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