tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post2160102986854233372..comments2024-01-30T19:45:36.648+11:00Comments on Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Reference checking drinking gameC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-63767105922474375232010-11-13T18:58:27.154+11:002010-11-13T18:58:27.154+11:00You gotta be careful with fictitious references- I...You gotta be careful with fictitious references- I know esteemed senior academics who put people on their peer-review "always recommend rejection" lists for building reference chains to nowhere. Every now and then somebody will follow the entire reference tree back to its roots, and if they do that (e.g to find a method) only to determine that the thing being referenced isn't C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-41929103365632181642010-11-13T05:20:11.826+11:002010-11-13T05:20:11.826+11:00I had a colleague back in the 80s who found a pape...I had a colleague back in the 80s who found a paper he liked and wanted to cite in a very large journal volume (a conference issue). He had the authors and the title but not the pages. After trying without success to find the paper again in the volume he finally gave up. To cite it he created fictional start and end pages.<br /><br />This was initially a bit of an embarrassment, but then these Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-63945667008385541822010-11-09T12:47:12.171+11:002010-11-09T12:47:12.171+11:00Hypocentre,
I was always taught to reference what ...Hypocentre,<br />I was always taught to reference what you read. So if you read the review article, reference that. If you slogged through the non-english paper, great. The only grey area for this rule is when you look at things like maps or figures in the original.<br /><br />Looking back at my thesis (the last substantially non-english thing I worked on), all the Soviet papers I referenced C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-31993612616038680352010-11-09T01:26:34.483+11:002010-11-09T01:26:34.483+11:00Referencing an easy to find / English language rev...Referencing an easy to find / English language review article rather than hard to find / foreign language primary source?Hypocentrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11861680448492241902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-3177271335878289972010-11-09T01:03:46.367+11:002010-11-09T01:03:46.367+11:00"Actually reading the referenced paper only t..."Actually reading the referenced paper only to find that it actually says the opposite of what you inferred based on the way that other people referenced it."<br /><br />That one also features in the famous "journal reviewing drinking game".Schlupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16399256701731431557noreply@blogger.com