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Re: st: Suggestion - Citing references from Stata Journal
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Suggestion - Citing references from Stata Journal
Date
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:23:17 -0500
At 08:21 AM 4/12/2012, Tiago V. Pereira wrote:
There is absolutely no point in adding manually references from the Stata
Journal to reference manager softwares. I won't do it. People won't do it.
I won't pay a lot of money for Web of Science to cite Stata Journal
either.
There have been previous discussions about what should and should not
be cited. Personally, I think it might be appropriate to sometimes
mention people in the acknowledgements rather than citing them. If
the author of a program wants and expects an acknowledgement then the
help file for the program can make that clear.
But, of all the arguments against providing citations, the effort
involved in typing one up seems the weakest to me. If a program has
saved me hours of work, or allowed me to do something I never would
have been able to do otherwise, then spending a minute or two on the
citation (if that) hardly seems onerous, especially since I can use
that citation over and over. And, I certainly wouldn't NOT cite some
journal article that I had drawn on just because it was a hassle to
type up the citation.
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