Questions tagged [citation]
The citation tag has no usage guidance.
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Cite documents rather than linking only
We should tell people to cite from documentation when they use link. I always look at old posts to learn something new, but some answerers give some link, but they are dead now (e.g., this). His first ...
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Justifying claims
Many posters report claims in statements such as
This author claims that…
Some claim that… OR Someone claims that…
I read that…
containing no supporting evidence, source or reference.
Should we ...
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Languages of references
I understand that Physics Stack Exchange "is an English language site", but I'm wondering whether it's acceptable to provide a generic reference (such as a link) to a source, written in a ...
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Where can I find a statement of the Physics SE policy on self-citation?
The question How was it determined how many neutrinos result from a single Beta decay? was asked recently and I had previously researched and written up in my book. As the passage in my book ...
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What is the policy for linking? E.g.: Why should we link to abstract pages rather than pdf files? How do we cite arXiv preprints?
As a comment to one of my contributions, I received the comment:
In the future please link to abstract pages rather than pdf files.
Fine. I am happy to follow up on this suggestion.
Can anybody ...
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Looking for a back end for a Physics SE literature citation button
The question Citation tool on Math.SE, can we get it? showcases a really nice feature that started as a userscript some three years ago and which has now been officially enabled on MathOverflow and ...
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Citation tool on Math.SE, can we get it?
I was just about to ask a question on math.se when I saw they had a new (I think) tool:
From what I can tell it allows a quick way to search and include references in questions and answers:
I think ...
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Publications Citing Physics SE?
What publications (papers, books, etc.) have cited questions or answers of Physics StackExchange?
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Answers quoting non-peer reviewed material
When answering a question on Physics, should answers that make reference to non-peer reviewed material that is found on, for example, arXiv, be discouraged, or even removed?
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Citing all your work
Many times I have answered questions only to be told to cite it. So I research and find somebody has already published it. With as much brains around here is it not possible to arrive at the same ...
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Should we encourage citations/references to included images?
While most questions/answers seem to be pretty good about including the link to articles (etc) where they take images from, it seems like it might be good to consistently encourage that the original ...
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Explicit references matter!
I know that this forum should not replace a good bibliographic research, but... It is quite useful to know which book or paper or tutorial or any other external source of information that people have ...
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Borrowing images
Can you tell me if it is allowed to borrow a diagram from another post in this site?
Is it necessary to cite both the source and the post from which it was borrowed?
Thanks
user76123
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A "cite this paper, will you?" button?
Just for everyone's attention, a nice question has popped up in the MathOverflow meta: Formatting citations to the literature on MathOverflow, shooting towards a button that will insert a formatted ...
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Should answers that link to Wikipedia be deleted?
If someone answers a question but refers to a Wikipedia link as a definitive source for the answer, should that answer be deleted or flagged somehow?
Reasons and explanation for my question
The ...
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Is is good/bad to cite to posts in other Q&A sites?
Is it nice to link to other Q&A sites when answering questions? I know that we don't have expectations as skeptics people. But, I have a bad feeling when we come up with an answer based on someone'...
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How can I cite a question in SE?
Is there a way to cite a StackExchange question, in a way similar to arXiv.org for instance ?
For arXiv, I can just write arXiv:1303.6666 for the article at link http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6666 and ...
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How do you cite yourself?
In this answer I cited some work I did a while ago.
To what extent should we allow self-linking? I have noticed in some cases there is self-linking that is only tangentially related to the ...
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