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Questions about when to cite a certain work, which work to cite, etc. For questions on formatting a given citation, use [citation-style].
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Copyright date or publication date, which one should I cite?
You should give the bibliographic information that the book gives you. Nothing more, nothing less. You should definitely cite the year that the publication itself puts as the year of publication (usua …
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How to cite a book that has appeared in multiple versions/editions over the years?
You should cite whatever edition you actually used. But allow me to add that you should have good reasons for not using the first edition (when it matters for your discussion when a claim was first ma …
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Names in my language used in publications are inconsistant. Should I worry about it?
It's not entirely clear to me what your worry or question is.
In your first question, you mention that "when I list some authors (say in my CV), one will easily notice the differences between how the …
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Should I cite all R packages I used?
There's no definite answer to this, but here's what I do.
I cite R itself and the packages I need to perform the actual analysis I report in my paper. I do not cite packages I consider to provide var …
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