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Verb plurality when citing paper with multiple authors [duplicate]
I already wrote a paper draft using inline citations like the following:
However, [12] argues that ...
Here I use "argues" instead of "argue" because the citation "[12]" acts as a singular noun (i....
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How to quote a quote? [duplicate]
I'm writing my master thesis. I need to quote a cited quote from another paper. So the scenario is that I'm reading a paper and this paper has a quote which is cited from another paper. Now I want to ...
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Is it ok to have a paper with no academic citation but just think tank and investigative journalism?
I'm writing my first paper for a conference about an issue enquired just by think tank, investigative journalism, ONG and United Nation Agencies but not directly from academic research.
So, is it ...
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how to indicate citations from the same, long document at different pages
I am proofreading a grant from another researcher. This is going to be submitted to the NIH which follows AMA guidelines. A particular, long report is providing her several of the researcher's ...
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How should one select his or her citations when writing a thesis in STEM?
I have looked over the master and PhD thesis of several past colleagues, and it seems that their thesis section are all very organized and does not deviate too much from the standard literature. In ...
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Is a higher amount of literature cited in an essay generally seen as better?
I'm a postgraduate M.Sc. student at a university studying math. Currently I need to write some essay/assignment (about 10 pages) for a seminar where we revisit already published work and describe it ...
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Citation and reference to a figure: which comes first?
This may be a bit of hair-splitting, but maybe there is a proper way to do this: In my thesis I present an external application. I want to give a literature reference to the application and a ...
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Are you required to trace back information on a subject to first publication for a citation on it?
If there is a tree of papers on or involving X, all of which give a brief introduction to X and I need a citation for my use of X, do I need to give the root of the tree as a citation of X or can I ...
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Can I use any book as a source?
I am writing a research paper (graduate level) on eating disorders. Many books have been written on this topic, ranging from pop culture type to scholarly works.
How do I know if a book is ...
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How to Use a Result Already Under Review in Another Paper?
This may apply to any mathematical scientists. I am working on a paper, which (as far as I can tell) needs a result that I obtained. The result needed is a part of another paper of mine that is ...
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Am I violating authors copyrights?
I simplified a publication into a method scheme and then published it on ResearchGate.
I added a reference to the original publication in my method paper.
My question is: am I violating the ...
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Help picking an appropriate citing style
I wrote a paper about governance mechanisms at StackExchange in which I got a lot of informations out of questions (especially on meta). I have kept all my references.
My teacher is letting us pick ...
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What citation style is this? It has numeric reference, title in quotes, "Last, F.F." name style
A style I'm required to follow, unfortunately unnamed:
[1] Last, G.L., Loo, B.F., Mooo, C.C., “My wonderful title” Int. J.
Heat Mass Transf., 32(19-21), pp. 234-245, (2001).
[2] Moobar, ...
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Do I need in text citations for an article on a historical event if I have links?
I am writing an article on a historical event chronicled by Plutarch and translated by the Harvard University Press and have used certain ideas and facts from his writings in my own article by ...
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Citation for quoting a current accepted value in an abstract?
In the abstract of a scientific report, when comparing an experimentally measured value to a current accepted value, should you provide a citation for it?
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Referencing in a paper
When referencing in a paper or a thesis, is there a convention to put a reference immediately after the word or separate them by a space? So for example do you have '... FTIR-spectroscopy[1]' or '... ...
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How important is it to cite the earliest report of something?
As a general rule I try to put in some due diligence to cite the authors who first provided strong evidence of something that I'm referencing, even if I wasn't aware of their work before I started ...
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How to decide on what citation format to use when writing on legal history?
I am an amateur historian who is considering writing a book about the history of Treason in the United States. I have a dilemma with how to format citations.
The book, by nature of being history of ...
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ChatGPT-alike for local abundant PDFs
I have a lot of PDF files collected using such tools as Mendeley or Zotero (thousands of files). I want to use ChatGPT-like to ask questions based on these PDF files (for example: "What is the ...
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Citations in abstract [duplicate]
I am interested to know about rules in writing abstract in social sciences. Is it wrong if you just cited in the abstract around two key authors of frameworks where your study was based? Then ...
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Style in citing two authors in the same sentence
I have a sentence with two concepts and two quotations from two different authors. It goes like this
Some is true because of concept one, that is "quotation one",
and concept two, that is "...
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How do we properly include and cite a set of equations from another paper?
When writing a paper which applies some known method to a new problem, for completeness we may need to summarize that method, probably as a section on its own.
In the paper where it was first ...
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Must one find references to fit knowledge already known from education or experience?
Recently I wrote a course paper on a subject connecting my major to my current major. In the background section, I listed quite a bit of essential information I think is information that is readily ...
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How can I cite an entire paragraph from one source minus a line in the middle
I have an entire paragraph mostly based off one source, but in the middle of the paragraph I have a sentence that comes from a direct quote and then the rest of the paragraph is from that first source....
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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 I include all relative publications in my manuscript?
I am a PhD candidate and when i'm writing a manuscript for a conference or journal i have the same question. Let's say my manuscript is about a topic A.
When i'm doing my bibliographic research i find ...
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Can I reference a result on a dataset without any research paper by that author as state of the art?
The best result on a given dataset has no trace in the form of
research paper or any sort of analysis.
We have no idea whose results were those, or what method was created.
Some competition was held,...
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Why do some academic papers have sentence-cased titles?
I noticed that many academic papers that I cited in my thesis have sentence-cased titles, for example, this one "Comparative analysis using K-mer and K-flank patterns provides evidence for CpG island ...
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What do I do if I cant find a proper basis for my methods of experimentation?
I am currently a senior high school student whose study is about producing homemade paper using coconut husks and testing for their certain properties. However, most studies that I have come across ...
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How to cite when I want to use a direct quote in the same sentence as an in-text citation with no parenthesis in APA?
For example, I want to describe a paper with a direct quote from it. Would this be OK:
Pieters and Wedel (2007) “revealed goal control of attention even during a few seconds of self-paced ad ...
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Citing line numbers of a one-page text in MLA format
Is it considered a valid MLA format for an in-text citation, where a work only has one page, to use the line numbers? Say, (LastName, AuthoredWork 2-3) for instance to cite the quoted lines 2-3 from ...
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where to find the year and conference of a scientific article?
When writing the references at the end of my internship report, I needed to cite all the information that needs to be said about the scientific articles that I used while writing the report. But these ...
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Is it worthwhile to cite documentaries in personal statements?
When writing something to be read and scrutinized by academics, like a personal statement, will academics appreciate, respect, and value references to factual documentaries?
For example, I'd like to ...
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Harvard Multiple authors- Alphabetical or not?
I apologise if I have missed this in the Harvard guidelines but I was wondering whether the order of multiple authors matters. For example a book by A Smith and A Jones. How should it be written:
(...
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What are the ins and outs of submitting two related papers that need to cite each other to the same or different journals? Potential pitfalls? [duplicate]
I'm currently in the middle of some calculations and modeling for two related but different papers on experimental and data analysis mathematical techniques, and have started drafting two papers.
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Can I use an Encyclopedia as a reference in an essay?
I am writing a paper that is about another culture. I need to include references about the culture in my paper. Is an encyclopedia an acceptable source for general information about the culture (...
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To what extent should relevant background be discussed vs. just referenced?
Is is perfectly appropriate to refer reviewers to other papers for understanding a concept or writer must include the concept in his paper too?
What should be done while keeping brevity, plagiarism ...
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Should a citation be included when answering a question regarding a specific source?
For example, "How do the six types of shenanigans relate to the ethical use of a flux capacitor according to Smith and Smith?" (Smith and Smith are authors of the textbook). For this type of ...
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How do I properly cite a research paper?
I know this question already has a similar answer but, please bear with me. I am writing my thesis and I realize there are cases I do not know how to properly cite, as illustrated in the following ...
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APA location/address of publisher vs location of conference
I need some clarification of the parameter location specified in the APA manual regarding papers published in the proceedings of conferences. Virtually all online data banks for papers that I came ...
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How to efficiently find citations for quotations after writing?
I wrote a long document about mathematics with a lot of quotations.
I must provide a citation for every quotation, but did not do this so far.
Now I’m stuck because I can’t efficiently find the ...
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Citing another author’s summary of other works in a journal article
I want to use the information from this block of text talking about psychoanalysis:
Some authors (e.g. Allison et al., 2006 and Turkle, 1995) compare the player and avatar's relationship to a ...
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Properly cite a document from the WHO assembly
I want to cite a document from this years WHO World Health Assembly. The document in question can be found by clicking on "Main Documents" on their page and then selecting the document with the title ...
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How to reference self-collected corpus
In the writing of a research paper, I've collected a large quantity of public blog posts and ingested them into a LDA and a word2vec data model. When I'm using terms from within these models, how can ...
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Should I include a citation every time I refer to the same thing from the same publication? [duplicate]
In my dissertation, I compare my results to the ABC model presented by John Doe. It seems excessive to include a reference every time I have a statement such as,
Compared to ABC, our results show ...
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Where do I place citations
I'm writing a math paper using TexShop that is almost entirely original but I got help with a trig proof; I found a formula in a book that I improved upon, and then got help finding a number series ...
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If I wanted to quote a joke from a website in verbatim in a formal academic essay, how would I do that?
The assignment is to evaluate humor in movies. I am unsure how to incorporate a joke quote in there. Would it be classified as plagiarism?
Quote: “I have an Epi-Pen. My friend gave it to me as he ...
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How to handle capitalized abbreviations in Book, Anthology, Journal, etc. titles in APA?
I am using APA and need to cite an article from a conference that has a capitalized abbreviation in its name:
Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing
https://dl.acm.org/citation....
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When do you italicize the name of a book, article or website in APA style citations and references?
I am writing a paper that is using APA Citation and I'm confused on how the in text citations are supposed to go. Do you italizize the name of the website, book, article in which you are citing? Or ...
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Do I cite both sources in the following scenario?
When you have sources X and Y that are similar in content/relay similar ideas, but only choose to use source X in an essay, and then summarize/paraphrase source X, but have source Y on your mind while ...
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