Reference citations should be accurate, complete, and presented in a consistent format. This study analyzed information provided to authors on preparing citations and references for manuscripts submitted to nursing journals (n = 209). Half of the journals used the American Psychological Association reference style. Slightly more than half provided examples of how to cite articles and books; the...

in this research ph.d. dissertation of kmsu were studied so that citation behavior of authors could be identified and in so doing, the core journal were introduced. the other aims of this study are determining the type, language and half life of cited journals. citation analysis in this study. to review the references and to determine the core journals, bradford law was used. the references for...

Although listed at the tail of a scientific article only once, a reference is usually cited repeatedly inside the full text of the article. In this research, we investigated the universality of recurring citations in Journal of Informetrics. About 1/4 references are repeatedly cited. For these repeatedly cited references, their citation location and citation context for the first and subsequent...

We have reviewed the reference citations in volume 1 (1995) and volume 2 (1996) of the Hong Kong Medical Journal to determine their accuracy. One hundred references were randomly selected from each volume. After excluding references not from indexed journals, all citations were examined in detail by dividing them into six component elements and comparing them with the original. We found that 61...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine the frequency of use and accessibility over time of electronic citations in Revista Española de Cardiología and 3 other Spanish biomedical journals, and to identify the factors that influence the accessibility and retrievability of these links. METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive study was performed of all the references in articles publish...

In writing Verbal Behavior, B. F. Skinner (1957) made clear his intention not to review the extant literature on the subject matter (Skinner, 1979, p. 282). Nonetheless, he did formally and informally cite many scientific, philosophical, and literary books and articles throughout his text. The formal citations appear as references in footnotes at the bottoms of pages, but are not found in any r...

Citations published in online supplementary material (OSM) are invisible to search engines used to calculate citation counts, potentially negatively impacting popular performance indices and journal rankings that rely on citation counts for quantification. To quantify the number of citations that are "lost" in OSM, we conducted a systematic survey of supplementary citation practices in four hig...

INTRODUCTION Obsolescence is the decrease of the validity of the information in time and is known as literature aging. OBJECTIVES To analyze the obsolescence of the literature of original articles published in 10 years in a Mexican pediatric journal. MATERIAL AND METHODS Articles published in the Clinical Bulletin of Sonora Children's Hospital (BCHIES) were analyzed. The variables were: yea...