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For questions on the process of writing. For questions on the content of writing, use [writing-style].

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Are you required to trace back information on a subject to first publication for a citation ...

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 ci …
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Does the related work section need to be strictly about other's work only?

I would like to clarify a writing style issue concerning separating related work from my own work: Does the related work section need to be strictly about other work only? … Is that permissible writing style? Or is the That is why I study "X" in regard to its influence on "Y" in more detail in this thesis. part out-of-place in the related work section? …
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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 acr …
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Referencing earlier passages: Cross reference or "as discussed earlier"

Are the more or less agreed upon stylistic rules for this in scientific writing? …
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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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