Please give some sugestions for master/doctoral students and young researchers about citation of the research papers of other researchers.
I thing that the theorical and practical results must be cited and the citation must be correct.
Thank in advance.
Alma
If the information is of a well-known nature, then there is no need to cite it. My rule of thumb is that I would not cite if a Google search yields more than ten results.
Remember only to cite work that is relevant to your research. Do not cite for citation sake.
The rules are simple and clear to allow your reader to verify your sources.
If you cannot write the text any better, then you put it into quotes, and cite the source. If you can write the text better, then you paraphrase it and cite the source. In both cases you include the full reference in your References Section. This rule applies for text in any section of the source paper.
Also, if you copy any data, figures, tables or pictures, your caption must include a citation and the full reference must be given in your References Section, even if you redraw or reformat the material.
My advice is to use a reference manager from the beginning. Because it also allows me to find themes, I use Qiqqa.
Dear @Alma, there are many similar discussions with good answers and resources. Behind the one recommended by dear @Ian, I do bring some more resources:
https://www.academiccoachingandwriting.org/academic-writing/resources/citations
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
Unfortunately, I do not have the Qiqqa account!
I think RG is the good method to display the publications. Then increase in the citation 😊.
REGARDS
Dear Alma Braimllari Spaho,I wish you find the following pdf,s interesting :
Thank you for your answers.
My question was not about citation style apa or others. Google and RG give citation of the papers.
Citation of a very general sentence in the introduction of other parts of a paper must be cited?
In my opinion, the methodology and the results of research worth to be cited.
1. Almost all new studies are the extension of the old ones and also based on those to some extent. To write the result of a new study, therefore, students should cite such old papers as were directly relevant to their research in the introduction section.
2. In the method section, the students should refer to the papers on which their methods depended.
3. In the discussion section, the students should cite recent, similar papers for comparison and argument.
If the information is of a well-known nature, then there is no need to cite it. My rule of thumb is that I would not cite if a Google search yields more than ten results.
Remember only to cite work that is relevant to your research. Do not cite for citation sake.
When to cite: Where ever you quote a work from some ones else you need to put the reference of that.
How to cite: This according to the demand of the journal that you intend to submit for publishing.
In addition to the comments above, I would suggest that it should be rare to have a paragraph in our introduction, literature review, and discussion that does not contain at least one or two citations. Anything in your research design that is based on the work of someone else should also be cited.
Remember that one of the main purposes of the citations is to allow readers to easily find more detail. Sometimes it is good to provide citations for very well-known ideas, just so that readers can find the most recent analysis or use of the ideas.
Hi Alma,
Some good advice here. I would add the following advice:
1) only cite sources you have read;
2) to provide context and overview on any topic it helps to seek out sources that summarise research. Typically these are literature reviews, systematic reviews, scholarly reference books and handbooks. You can use these to provide context for your research and cite them in your review of the literature;
3) if you are using someones words always attribute them or if you want to quote them and identify the quotes clearly (indent use "").
4) know your audience. Broad foundational ideas will be well know to your audience and as Ian says above may not need citation. However, discussions about, agreements with or disagreements with them would need to be cited.
5) It may be expected that you cite senior colleagues in your papers. Usually they will be writing about your topic anyway if they are in the same area or department. You may have to consider carefully the relevance of each citation to your work of the topic. Any or too many erroneous will compromise any paper or assignment.
Best Wishes
Matt
Hi,
It is a well known fact that not all citations are relevant, functional and serve as building blocks in science, as originally it was supposed to be. Therefore, it is recommended that citations will serve these functions and avoid other irrelevant motivations.
If a researcher cite an exact phrase, than it should be within quotation marks with the name of the cited author and the date of publication.
If the citation is not an exact phrase then the last name of the author and the publication date will appear within brackets.
There are several citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard etc) , and when the author decides to use one of these styles he should stick throughout his paper to this same style.
On the internet there are guides for each citation style.
I agree with the contributions of Prof. Ian.
Check out this link: http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/mla/journal
We cite works only when their roles in our research expedition is indispensable.
I think this document can help if you want to use the Harvard referencing style
In any research paper, you will have used information from other sources, and it is essential to use in text citations to accredit other researchers...
There are a number of ways in which you can reference the source, but most are based upon variations of MLA and APA style.
Check with your supervisor which exact technique you should be using, and be consistent.
If you use one style all of the way through, there should be no problem, but mixing the styles makes things unclear to the reader and may well be punished by your supervisor...
https://explorable.com/in-text-citation
When and how to cite a research paper?
You cite when you try to justify idea(s) / statement(s) not originated from you or seeking supporting documentation to backup your claim. You don't need to cite when it is a common knowledge or can be rationalized by reasonable logic. In order to cite you can use quote verbatim or paraphrase.
Ideas, information, data, conclusion, ...etc from another persons should be cited when presenting our own works to avoid plagiarism. In publishing, each of cited items is followed by the reference of these items.
Best regards.
Here some advice.
Be sure that you cite the main references related to your topic. You have to optimize their number especially when you publish in peer-reviewed journals.
Be sure that you cite the references that you have read and judge their value and importance (contribution) to your writing.
When you read a lot of papers and research studies you will notice the importance of taking care of your References List by keeping the best, fundamental and recent references as well.
Good info. I just want to know one thing, If you paraphrase and cite the source properly, will it affect your plagiarism score reported in Turnitin?
As a researcher you know consciously that which things are coming from your intellect and which are not. Any thing you take from others, there is no harm in giving them due credit. Now, paraphrasing is the best way to use others work in your research. you need to put quotes if you are citing verbatim. The citations depends on style of referencing method selected like APA or MLA.
Just for young researchers:
Uncertainty over citation and paraphrasing can cause many students to make simple mistakes that could lead to serious consequences...
Citing as you write is fairly straightforward. Paraphrase by writing your own words, drop in your citation cite after you’ve used the particular source or section thereof, and always immediately quote any text that you copy and paste...
https://edtechnology.co.uk/Blog/how-to-implement-citation-and-paraphrasing-into-the-writing-process/
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