Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

College papers need more than good ideas and grammar. The use of proper citations is also a very important consideration but in most cases, it is ignored by students. Even a minor inaccuracy in a ...

There is a valid point to Kurt Schick’s diatribe (“Citation Obsession? Get Over It,” The Chronicle, October 30), and it is that we should not get bogged down in the petty details of citation format—or ...

APA style is the formal writing style that is endorsed by the APA (American Psychological Association). It’s got lots of rules (e.g., within a parenthetical citation, use an ampersand (&), but outside ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- At first it may seem that the number of citations received by a published scientific paper is directly related to that paper's quality of content. The higher the quality, the more ...

According to a new study, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles. [Editor's note: please ...