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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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What should be the affiliation of PhD student who submitted thesis but yet to defend, in a conference talk slides?
I have submitted my PhD thesis in mathematics but have yet to defend. I have a conference in the next month, a contributed talk on a topic different from the dissertation.
I have prepared the front ...
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Is there a way to easily match zbMATH and MR numbers?
I'm a mathematician and I love using the MathSciNet and zbMATH databases to trawl through the literature, find new papers, and generate citations. So in my own papers, in my own bibliography, it makes ...
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If a reference is no longer publicly available, should you include the proofs of the results you cite from it?
I am writing a math paper and planning to cite 1-2 results from a non-published preprint article that I had found online a couple years ago. The original link to the document no longer works, since it ...
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Best practices for citing a reference you've found an error in
I am writing a mathematics paper and citing a particular reference in a peer-reviewed mathematical journal. It turns out that the result I reference is ultimately correct, but the proof has an error ...
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Is it acceptable to not give someone credit in a math thesis for minor guidance?
This question is related to this question. If I write a thesis and encounter a small problem that I can't resolve on my own, maybe because I didn't sleep well this day, and someone, like my mother or ...
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What to do when a result is essentially proven but not stated in an existing publication?
I am writing a paper in mathematics that uses some technical results from a classic paper in the field, but not exactly in the way these results were stated at the time. Basically, I found that ...
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Arrangement of references in math papers
My question is the following. Should references in math papers be arranged according to author’s last-names or first-names?
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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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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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Mutual citations of two papers (in mathematics)
Given two research articles A, B, is it common for them to have mutual citations, in the sense A is cited in B and B is cited in A?
Does it not create (an initial) confusion on which work is done ...
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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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Should I cite the paper from which I got the research question in my own paper?
While reading the paper of some authors. I have decided to work on a question which they listed as an open question in the conclusion section. I'm hesitating on whether or not to cite the paper, from ...
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What are parameters I can use to compare two researchers' work in Pure Mathematics?
I am a 2nd year master's students in Pure Mathematics.
I am interested in knowing how should I compare the research of 2 pure mathematicians working in same field, say topology. I want to work with ...
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Should I apologise to a professor for not citing his paper?
Last year, I went to a math conference to present new results in my paper 1, which was just submitted to a journal. Afterwards, a well-known Professor X approached me to discuss the paper. He seemed ...
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I might be rediscovering someone else's result. What should I do?
I am writing a paper presenting a mathematical theorem I recently proved. However, while reading one of the papers that I am citing, I found out that the same result (or something very similar) might ...
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SHA-256 research paper and referencing FIPS
I've posted this first one the Cryptography SE but was advised to move it here due to the very nature of the question.
Anyway, for my college thesis I've decided to do a full stack project on SHA-256. ...
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How should I cite a conjecture to which no written record can be found?
Suppose that a famous mathematician E (long deceased) made a conjecture (C), but no written record of this can be found (either because none exists, or because it exists in a very obscure source). ...
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If I derive a formula for a paper do I need to put the derivation directly in a paper?
Let's say that I derived a formula that I am using in a paper, without any prior knowledge of the formula. Do I need to then put my derivation directly in my paper, or could I submit a supplementary ...
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What is the correct way of citing a book in a presentation (made using Beamer)
I am making slides for presentation using beamer.
I have the following reference book in the bibliography in the following format
[5]Author 1 and Author 2, book name, publication house, year
I have ...
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Re-citing a math theorem with errors
A follow-up question to this: Citing a math theorem with errors
Let's say a paper A has some error in a proof of a theorem and then I publish a paper B citing the theorem and its proof and also ...
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Citing a math theorem with errors
Suppose author X writes a paper, and in this paper, they prove a result that is a very small part of their paper. However, the result has a mistake. Based on personal judgement, it appears the mistake ...
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Whom should I identify as the original contributor?
The paper [1] of Seidel in 1976 is commonly cited when peoples mention two-graphs, but Taylor wrote down the concept of regular two-graph, which is stronger than two-graph in his PhD thesis [2] in ...
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Is it common to have no MathSciNet version of a paper in Mathematics?
For papers/books in mentioned in MathSciNet there is a way to get a BibTex version of the citation.
I wanted to cite a paper and it is not in MathSciNet. It is a published paper in International ...
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How do I cite an equation that has a typo in the source?
I want to cite an equation in my thesis that has a minor typo in the cited source (the wrong letter is used for an index). How should I do that? Can I simply correct the typo in my paper without ...
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When the title of an article is printed differently in the front/back matter versus the first page, which should be used for citing the article?
I wish to cite a research paper by B. L. van der Waerden from 1928 that is titled (very) slightly differently in the front/back matter of the journal versus the first page of the article: in the front/...
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Do I mention that a paper in mathematics is a "Short Communication" or "Note" or "Research Article" when citing it?
Apologies in advance for a possibly naive question. When I search for literature relevant to my research work, I come across articles that are published variously as either a "Short Communication&...
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Should I cite a result if the paper doesn't include a proof?
I'm writing a mathematical paper. In it, I use a lemma. The lemma is not hard to prove and I have verified it myself. The proof is too tedious to include in the paper, so I want to just include a ...
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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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What is the proper way to cite a mathematical theorem in a paper?
I have questions on how to properly cite a mathematical theorem in order to use it in a paper.
For example, assume that I need to apply an existing theorem from a published book 1.
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Proper way of including pictures into the Master's thesis [duplicate]
I'm doing mathematics and my thesis consists mainly of understanding and elaborating couple of articles, writing clearly everything down, and possibly including a little of my own original work at the ...
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Citing Ramanujan's notebooks
I am citing a specific entry in Ramanujan's Notebooks and have a question: should I cite Berndt (the author of the aforementioned text) and Ramanujan directly (to each their own citation) even though ...
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Why did notable mathematician Walter Rudin have so few citations according to ResearchGate? [closed]
According to ResearchGate, Rudin had about 30 ish papers and 500 ish citations.
How come so few? I thought he was this legend of maths.
Here's his profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-...
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Can I add non-cited reference to bibliography?
I want to add non-cited references to bibliography for two reasons.
Sometimes, it is not clear whether I referred to it or not. Clearly, not only citing a statement is a citation, but also citing an ...
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Copy pasting definitions and theorems from other papers to my own paper
I am writing a mathematical paper. Since my English is not perfect, i am borrowing sentences from English-speaking authors. I have some questions about copy and paste from other papers to my paper. ...
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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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Citing propositions etc. in a master's thesis
So in my mathematics master's thesis I am mainly following a certain paper, trying to understand it and present it's results in my own way. Now for a few chapters in my thesis I am basing them off of ...
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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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How to acknowledge a MathOverflow user?
I am writing a research paper. A small but important idea for the paper was found on MathOverflow. I know the real name of the user. I tried contacting him and offered him co-authorship, but I got no ...
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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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Referencing a mathematical result already obtained
I was working(in maths) for some months on a paper. After I got the results, I found out that some of those were already obtained in another paper that was not very related to my topic. In fact, in ...
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Referring to author order on paper when arXiv and published copy are different
A paper that I need to refer to reasonably often has in its arXiv version the authors listed alphabetically by surname (as is the custom in mathematics). The published version lists the authors in a ...
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Do we cite results in Arxiv which are obviously wrong?
I am now writing up a math paper, and there is an Arxiv paper posted back in 2009 which proved a weaker version of my result. But I don’t think their paper will be published in any journal – their ...
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How to cite online-first published articles? Should you include link to earlier ArXiV version?
When one cites an article which appeared online-first in a journal of mathematics, but which is not in print and has no volume number yet, I have read that one can just use the DOI instead. But do you ...
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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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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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Should listed citations in a historical overview be ordered numerically or chronologically?
I'm writing an article and in one portion I give a brief historical overview of previous work on the problem I am studying.
(In case this matters, it's a pure math article,
specifically topology.)
I ...
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citing work that definitely won't be published
I imagine this is probably a duplicate, but when I search I can only find questions about citing work that is likely to be published.
I'm writing a math paper for publication, and I want to cite a ...
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How to cite "Crelle's Journal"
Crelle's Journal is a nickname of a Mathematics Journal, and it's full name is "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik". It's commonly called Crelle since it is founded in 1826 by August ...
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Citing in undergraduate thesis
I am presently working on my undergraduate thesis in mathematics. My work consists mainly of analyzing a handful of sources, internalizing proofs and methods and then fleshing out the rough outline ...
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