Research Citation and its worth

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Are you writing some article / book / #research_paper, etc., and copying certain contents of another author in your work then don’t forget to acknowledge the work of your predecessor in your work. Acknowledging someone else works by including personal detail about the source in the body of a paper as well as listing the details of the source at the end of the paper by a means of Reference/work cited/bibliography is known as a citation. The reason for the citation is the concept of Intellectual property, a property that worth to protect someone’s idea is very important.

Thus, a citation is a technique of informing your readers that some of the information in your work came from a different source. Here source may be, Book, Book Section, Journal Article, Article in a Periodical, Conference Proceedings, Report, Website, Document from web site, Electronic Source, Art, Sound Recording, Performance, Film, Interview, Patent, Case, E-Mail, etc. Citations should supply detail to identify the source uniquely by specifying the following,

  • Biographical information on the author
  • Work/Paper Title
  • the name and location of the journal/books/conference etc. that published source
  • the publication date of work/paper
  • the page numbers,  etc.

#Purpose_of_Citation

  1. The author's effort, as well as the detailed research work carried out by the scholar(s), is reflected in the citation.
  2. To acknowledge or to give a credit to the original author(s) and hence avoid committing intellectual property theft.
  3. To assist your reader in learning more about your topic, arguments, thoughts, or issue by knowing your sources.
  4. To make your work more reliable and to reflect quality work by quoting someone in your field of a subject or related to the title.
  5. To identify the relationship between the cited work and your own content.
  6. To keep you from failing a paper, a course, or being sued in the real world due to plagiarism or copyright.

 #Citation_Style

Many disciplines have their own citation styles with the version. Though earlier there were very few styles but now, every day some new citation style is coming out for each subject too. The following are some of the popular styles and disciplines where this style is used is mentioned.

·   APA (American Psychological Association) :- Education Science and Mostly used in Scientific topics Like Behavioral Science (Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience) and Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Human Geography, Archaeology, Linguistics)

·  MLA (Modern Language Association) :- Literature, Languages, Liberal Arts, Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies

·  IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) :- Technical Fields particularly in  Electronics / Electrical etc.

·   ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) :- Computer Science

·   Chicago/ Turabian :- Generally used by Commerce and Business Management, Law, History, and the Fine Arts, Dance

·   Harvard :- Humanities and Social Sciences subjects

Note: Unless the university or guide has not specified any style to you then one can follow citation style according to the following table.

#Citation_Tool

Many citation tools exist to assist you in accessing information from across the web that will help you get fully-formatted bibliography/references that clearly displays all of the sources that have contributed to your work, such as websites, books, journals, and so on. Some of the best citation tools are 1. BibMe 2. Citation Machine 3. Citavi 4. Citefast  5. Citelighter  6. Docear  7. OttoBib.

I will suggest going for a citation generator (https://www.citethisforme.com/us/citation-generator)

#Indirect_Citation

When the ideas of one author are written in another author's text but you haven't read or accessed the original author's work, this is known as an indirect citation or secondary source. For example, you are reading a book titled say “Research Publication and Ethics” by Dr. S. B. Kishor published in 2021 that includes a description of a study carried out by author Dr. Ajay Kushwaha. But you don’t have any proper source regarding the work carried by Dr. Ajay Kushwaha. As a result, your citation to Dr. Kushwaha is a secondary citation. In your work (in article/book/research paper) you would say something like “According to work by Dr. Kushwaha (as cited in Dr. Kishor, 2021)

Conclusion

Whenever a non-original content is written to support your writing, a citation should be included. In a nutshell, citation shows the source where your thoughts or ideas came from. It displays the relevant source and gives credit to predecessors for their contributions to the author's present project/work. So, if you're writing an article or a paper, remember to cite when you're duplicating someone else's work to avoid intellectual property theft and that provide a proper worth to your work.

Dr. S. B. Kishor
       M.Sc.(Computer Science), M.Phil, MIRPM,  Ph.D. (Business Mgt.), Ph.D. (Computer Science)
Head, Department of Computer Science,
    Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya,
    Ganj Ward, Chandrapur - 442 401 (M.S.)
Chairman, Computer Science Board &
Member of Academic Council,
    Gondwana University, MIDC Road Complex,
    Gadchiroli - 442 605 (M.S.)
India

Location: Chandrapur, Maharashtra 442401, India

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