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Citations are how credit is given to original sources. Use this tag to discuss ways to present or format citations via code. Questions about what obligation you have to cite original works are off-topic

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Citing the author of a blockquote using Markdown syntax

I am using the Symfony CMS and it uses Markdown for article writing. I need to do a blockquote of a quote from Benjamin Franklin and would like to have the quote followed by a citation beneath it, but right now all it does is blockquote the whole…
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Compiling LaTex bib source

I am writing my thesis in Latex, and I have the references in an own thesis.bib file which look as follows @Article{xxx, author = "D.A. Reinhard", title = "Case Study", year = "1985", } and I reference them in my main…
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R "stats" citation for a scientific paper

I analyzed my data using R package ‘stats’ (version 2.15.3). A reviewer asked me the right citation of this package and not only the common R Core Team (2012). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical…
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Automatically abbreviate authors' first names in LaTeX

Using natbib/Latex/Bibtex, in the references section I get references with full first names like: Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein. Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals. Technical Report 8, 1966. I would like…
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Cite various python packages in paper

We have a working tool built off of various packages in python. I am not sure how to cite these packages for a paper I am working on. How do I properly cite python packages? One of them have a way they ask us to cite them via a book. Most say…
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Automatically create bibliography from bibtex in pandoc/markdown without inline citations

How can I automatically create a citations list from a bibtex file, preferably in markdown (more specifically, pandoc) format? I'm in the process of building my personal, academic website. As most personal, academic websites do, I am including a…
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Citing articles in R package using roxygen2 and BibTeX?

I'm using roxygen2 as a tool for documenting my R package, and I found that there is a @references tag in roxygen2, but that seems to only accept free form text. I found some presentation about roxygen which has tags @bibliograph and @cite, but am I…
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How to retrieve/calculate citation counts and/or citation indices from a list of authors?

I have a list of authors. I wish to automatically retrieve/calculate the (ideally yearly) citation index (h-index, m-quotient,g-index, HCP indicator or ...) for each author. Author Year Index first 2000 1 first 2001 2 first 2002 3 I can…
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Blinding a latex paper

Many journals require submission of a blinded version of your paper. The blinded version usually removes: the list of authors any citations to the authors' work How can I create a blinded version of my manuscript without doing this manually?
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R Markdown: suppress parentheses in specific citations

I have an R Markdown document that includes some citations. I am using the default citation style, which usually works well for me. But I have some sentences that lie within parentheses, and in these sentences, I want to cite works without adding a…
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Rmarkdown removes citation hyperlink

when using Rmarkdown to build a pdf with citations included, it removes the hyperlinks of the citations by default. Looking at the latex file produced, I can see \usepackage{hyperref} in the pre-amble, but the citations look as follows: rmd input: …
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Putting citation text on same slide with LaTeX Beamer

By default, using \cite in the Beamer class of LaTeX places the actual citation information at the end of the presentation on a separate slide containing the bibliography. How does one get the citation information, instead, on the same slide as the…
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How to cite a blog post using HTML microdata and schema.org?

My goal is to cite a blog post by using HTML microdata. How can I improve the following markup for citations? I am seeking improvements on the syntax and semantics, to produce a result that works well with HTML5 standards, renders well in current…
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Approximate Number of CPU Cycles for Various Operations

I am trying to find a reference for approximately how many CPU cycles various operations require. I don't need exact numbers (as this is going to vary between CPUs) but I'd like something relatively credible that gives ballpark figures that I could…
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How to change citation style in biblatex in R Markdown?

When citation_package: biblatex is included in the YAML of an .Rmd file, is it possible to specify the citation style? I can't find any information on this in the various R markdown manuals.
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