Guidelines:Citations

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This encyclopedia cites resources in a semantically meaningful way, i.e. each citation refers to a properly defined bibliographic resource. Thus, to add a reference, please make use of [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]] style annotations. Here is an example:

There is good reason to believe that a general TSC is not only theoretically possible, but also practically achievable. Indeed, no serious scientist would ever take initial failures in finding regularities as a reason for despair. Physicists, for instance, do not stop searching for general laws when their initial attempts fail to produce the desired results. Likewise, no level of complexity or apparent disunity of historical episodes can justify the particularist abolition of the idea of a general TSC.1

To make this work, the bibliographic resource - in this case Barseghyan (2015) - should be previously added to the bibliographic records of this encyclopedia. Once a bibliographic record is created, it can then be cited from any page of the encyclopedia.

Articles in Collections

To add an article that was published in a collection, the collection itself should first be added to the system. There are two basic types of collections:

  • collections of articles by different authors;
  • collections of articles by the same author.

If an article is in a collection of articles by different authors, the collection's citation key should include (Ed.) if it has one editor, or (Eds.) if it has more than one editor. E.g.:

Zalta (Ed.) (2016)2

Lakatos and Musgrave (Eds.) (1970)3

However, if a collection of papers is by the same author, we don't add (Ed.) and register that collection as a book, thus:

Lakatos (1978a)4

Online Resources

To indicate that a resource is available online, simply add its URL in the respective field. No additional actions are required.

Publication Year

A resource can have more than one editions. When creating a bibliographic record for a publication, the year of actual publication should be used, rather than the year of first publication. For example, Descartes' Treatise on Man was originally published in 1664, but if you are using the translation of the Treatise published by Prometheus Books in 2003, then the citation key should be Descartes (2003), not Descartes (1664). If needed, you can indicate the date of original publication in the abstract.

If an author has more than one publication in the same year, then these publications should be differentiated by adding a letter after the year of the publication, e.g. Lakatos (1978a) and Lakatos (1978b).45

Page Numbers

Whenever the source you are citing is a book (rather than a book section or paper), you should always give the relevant page numbers. Whenever you are directly quoting the source, you should always give the page number, regardless of the nature of the source. To indicate a specific page of the citation, please add |p. <pagenumber> to the [[CiteRef...]] annotation. For example, [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xii]] will produce this result:1p. xii.

For references to multiple pages, please use |pp. instead of |p., e.g. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 1-3]]:1pp. 1-3

Note Note: There should be no space between | and p., but there must be a space before the page number. Thus, [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| p.xii]] is incorrect, while [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xii]] is correct.

Multiple Authors

If a resource has more than one author, please make sure that each author is added to the system individually and all authors are indicated when defining the resource. If a resource has up to three authors, all of them will be openly listed. E.g.:

Nola and Sankey (Eds.) (2000)6

If a resource has more than three authors, please use et al. in the citation key of the resource.

Multiple Resources

If two or more resources need to be cited at the same time, please insert as many [[CiteRef...]] references as necessary, without separating them by spaces or commas.78

Some text citing 2 resources.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1970a)]][[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]]

References Section

The encyclopedia will automatically add References section to the bottom of each page. No additional action is required.

Common Errors

Wrong Year

It is tempting to cite the year of first edition of a resource even when a later edition is used. This is unacceptable, since different editions should have different bibliographic records and should not be confused. To avoid confusion, the bibliographic data of the edition that was actually used is to be entered.

Missing Letter

When entering a resource, it is important to check if the author had other publications in the same year. If so, a letter should be added after the year of the resource to differentiate the publications within the same year, e.g. e.g. Feyerabend (1975a) and Feyerabend (1975b). If the letters are missing, different resources cannot be properly differentiated.

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Note Note: The [[CiteRef...]] tag is Case Sensitive. Thus, [[Citeref...]] tag won't work. Similarly, [[CiteRef::barseghyan (2015)]] won't work.

Beware of Spaces

Note Note: There is no space after ::. Thus, [[CiteRef:: Bird (2011)]] is invalid. The valid markup is [[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]].

Citation Before Period or Comma

Note Note: Citations that precede a comma or a period look ugly1p.1. They look much better when placed after the period.1p.1

References

  1. a b c d e  Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
  2. ^  Kuhn, Thomas. (1970) Reflections on My Critics. In Lakatos and Musgrave (Eds.) (1970), 231-278.
  3. a b c  Bird, Alexander. (2011) Thomas Kuhn. In Zalta (Ed.) (2016). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
  4. ^ barseghyan (2015)