Guidelines:Citations

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, Barseghyan-2015 should be properly defined using {{#scite}} template. Here is an example:

{{#scite:Barseghyan-2015
 |type=book
 |author=Barseghyan, Hakob
 |title=The Laws of Scientific Change
 |year=2015
 |publisher=Springer
 |isbn=978-3319175959
}}

Such {{#scite}} entries must be created for all cited resources. While technically these bibliographic entries can be inserted anywhere on the page, we recommend placing them at the end of the article for the sake of consistency.

Importantly, these citation resources can be added to any wiki page. Once defined, the same citation source can be used throughout the encyclopedia regardless of where it was defined. Thus, there is no need to redefine the same source on different pages. For instance, the above resource can be referenced at any page of the encyclopedia as [[CiteRef::Barseghyan-2015]].

Here is a {{#scite}} template for journal articles:2

{{#scite:Laudan-1989
 |type=journal
 |author=Laudan, Larry
 |title=If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It
 |journal=The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
 |volume=40 
 |year=1989
 |pages=369-375
}}

For articles in collections, please use the following format:3

{{#scite:Kuhn-1970a
 |type=collection
 |author=Kuhn, Thomas
 |title=Reflections on My Critics
 |year=1970
 |collectioneditors=Lakatos and Musgrave
 |collectionyear=1970
 |pages=231-278
}}

For online resources, please choose one of the above templates and add a |url= parameter to indicate the url of the resource. For instance, an article in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy will go under the |type=collection:4

{{#scite:Bird-2013
 |type=collection
 |author=Bird, Alexander
 |title=Thomas Kuhn
 |year=2013
 |collectioneditor=Zalta
 |collectionyear=2013
 |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2013/entries/thomas-kuhn/
}}

If the online resource is a magazine or article, it will go under |type=journal:5

{{#scite:Allain-2016
 |type=journal
 |author=Allain, Rhett
 |title=Using Gravitational Waves to Pinpoint Colliding Black Holes
 |journal=Wired
 |year=2016
 |url=http://www.wired.com/2016/02/using-gravitational-waves-to-pinpoint-colliding-black-holes/
}}

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