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Using Cambridge's "short-title reference system"
Does anyone have experience using the Cambridge UP's "short-title reference system" or even just know of a work that uses it. I'm copy-editing for some extra cash but the style guide they ...
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How do you cite a published book that is a translation of an unpublished diary?
A book (ISBN: 0837156807) with the title 'The Diaries of Tchaikovsky' contains English translation of the un-published personal diaries of the Russian composer - how should this book be cited using ...
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A few questions about properly citing resources according to the APA format
I recently finished writing a monograph but I am having some slight misunderstandings about how to properly cite the resources I used.
When mentioning the source of figures, should I write the author'...
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How to cite a spoken quote?
I have a quote spoken by a person in an interview, how do I cite it?
Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died
on Thursday, said in a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, &...
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Sensible rules for forming acronyms for publications in references
Personally, I prefer numbering references and citing them in the text by something like
see A. Miller and P. Smith [13] for further details
or
see Miller–Smith [13] for further details
However, some ...
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Making an offhand note in a citation
I noticed that a PDF link from a university course I used as a URL to cite doesn't open, unless it's opened from the course portal itself. Within my referencing of the source, I note which link to ...
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What automatic citation/bibliography programs are well-designed for law papers?
I have tried Mendeley for citations and bibliography for writing law papers at my university, but it seems not to be designed for legal citations.
For example, when I want to add a Case file as an ...
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How to cite computer terminals like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters?
Consider that I looked up some data, more specifically credit ratings for a sovereign, in the Bloomberg and the Thomson Reuters terminal for my thesis:
The sovereign is rated Aaa by Moody's, AAA by ...
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What style of reference is the below?
I was asked by an editor to write a reference like this. What kinda reference style is this?
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Citing literature reference as a statement of purpose title
I'm currently putting the finishing touches on a few grad school applications, and some of them require that my statement of purpose has a title. For one reason or another, I decided that the title of ...
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ACM in-text citations for specific locations in a lengthy referenced work?
I'm using the ACM citation style format for my paper. In the text of that paper, I wish to cite particular passages in a 50-page reference, so the reader will not have to wade through the entire ...
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Cite appendix from guest author (APA)
I need to cite the appendix of a book that I already cited somewhere else in my paper, but the appendix was written by a guest author whose name is not among the author names of the book. Does this ...
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CMS citations: complete page numbers for serialized works
When citing a novel that was originally serialized in a journal (Dickens, for instance), one usually does not give complete pagination of all installments individually. But the issue may arise, if for ...
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How to cite OER textbooks which have had the title and authors removed?
I would like to cite an OER (Open Educational Resources) book in a concise way. The book is available here. The online pdf of the book says
Normally, the author and publisher would be credited ...
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How many levels of sub-citations are appropriate?
I'm writing my Thesis and I found a brilliant book that helps me write it in a coherent manner. Consider this:
The author, Smith, talks about Approach XYZ and writes:
XYZ is about ..., first used ...
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