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I am working on a structured literature review. Therefore, I have identifed a comprehensive set of journal articles. On these articles I ground my review. Let's consider I am interested how the researchers in my set of identified articles describe "the envrionment". After reviewing all articles I can, for example, extract three different terms from the set of articles: dynamic, volatile, turbulent. Let's assume that 4 different articles use the expression dynamic, 3 volatile, and 5 turbulent.

Let's now also assume that my text I write about "the envrionment" is as follows:

In the context of ABC, scholars describe the environment as dynamic (SOURCE); turbulent (SOURCE); or volatile (SOURCE).

My question is now, how many articles should be cited as SOURCE for the corresponding expression? For example, for turbulent I have identified 5 articles which use this expression. Should all articles be cited in the form of: ...; turbulent (V, 2000; W 2007; X, 2011; Y; 2012; Z, 2013); or volatile (...). Or is there another rule how to deal with such a situation?

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