Citations are references to published or unpublished sources other than the work one is currently reading. This tag should be used when asking for proper formatting for citations or information about the ethics of citations.
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Referencing a website using Harvard style
How can I reference a website using the Harvard style?
How would this be different if no author was listed?
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Vancouver system, citing multiple sentences from the same book
I've written a few paragraphs and in them I cited three short sentences from the same book, same chapter and marked them as ...(1)...(2)...(3).... My endnotes now look like this:
(1) Author1, ..., ...
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What is the key reference documentation and how should I cite BASH?
I originally posted this question at SO, but two users there suggested that I take it here.
I am writing a scientific research paper, and I want to know if it is appropriate to cite bash, and if so, ...
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What's “fair use” for borrowing someone else's invented term?
Let's say I'm writing a sci-fi novel. I want to use a word which another writer has coined, which has become well-recognized outside the original book, for the name of an alien species in my story.
I ...
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Indirect source quotations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Citing speech and interviews in biographies
How do you quote an indirect source (source quoted in another source) when there are explanatory words within the indirect ...
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Correct usage/explanation of ibid in referencing
My girlfriend was advised to use Ibid in her assignment's citations to help reduce the word count (I pointed out that references are usually not part of the count, but regardless); but she couldn't ...
