Hello dears,
Sometimes we ask some questions regarding to our research area and there we got some valuable opinion and highly significant to our study. So if I want to use their opinion. How do we cite them?
Thanks
Dear Md. Saidur Rahaman It’s a bit complex issue. For citations researches usually use peer reviewed journal’s articles. However, you can use web sites s a reference. You can use “personal communications by a respectful known scientists at a conference or personal correspondence “ but would be a weak option. Some scientists do not accept “Dynamic Wikipedia “ as a reference but some scientists accept it.
My recommendation would be stick to main stream, there are endless open access references out there and you can access lots of full text here at RG. I hope this would be helpful.
Kind regards,
Emre
Dear Md. Saidur Rahaman It’s a bit complex issue. For citations researches usually use peer reviewed journal’s articles. However, you can use web sites s a reference. You can use “personal communications by a respectful known scientists at a conference or personal correspondence “ but would be a weak option. Some scientists do not accept “Dynamic Wikipedia “ as a reference but some scientists accept it.
My recommendation would be stick to main stream, there are endless open access references out there and you can access lots of full text here at RG. I hope this would be helpful.
Kind regards,
Emre
The best is to establish a direct communication with the author and to cite the opinion, etc. as private correspondence, with date of permission.
Please check this out:
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49203/how-to-cite-an-experts-opinion-which-doesnt-have-any-title-and-should-i
I hope that helps!
Sir @Stephen I. Ternyik,
If I want to use the idea of your aforementioned statement "The best is to establish a direct communication with the author and to cite the opinion, etc. as private correspondence, with date of permission. "
How do I cite you? And, make it as example.
Thanks
One way to cite them is to write the author's name, date on which you received a suggestion or a tip and call it "Private Communications." Journals scoff at this if you have too many "Private Communications." The other choice would be to provide a web reference.
I do not know if this is possible now, but 30-40 years ago (and, of course, earlier) in the list of references - besides journal articles one could often find references like: "from our conversation with Dr. X" or "from the conversation with Dr. Y, February 12, 1987 ". I did not meet magazines of that time that would reject references from such sources.
At the beginning of the 20th century, jokes were even welcomed .
For example, in one of the chemical journals of 1907, I saw a link to the magazine "Odessa Cabbie." With the publication of articles before it was much easier. Nowadays, editorial portfolios are over-crowded. Very often, the editorial board asks its Peer Reviewers (PR) - to reject up to 70-80% of articles - the last is of my own experience as a PR.
@ Shaden M H Mubarak:
Dear Shaden, I have already answered to your question (please, see above). I think that without any hesitation - you can cite the opinion of any RG member in any Journal. Of course, in your reference you should indicate his/her name. It will be even more convincing if you'll give any of his/her publication close to the subject.@
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