What a colossal waste. Citation style remains the most arbitrary, formulaic, and prescriptive element of academic writing taught in American high schools and colleges.

When we use book citation APA, we must include the date and author’s last name, for example (Jones, 1998). A full description of the quote should be at the end of the article. Sometimes it is ...

That left us with a data set of 28,774 articles. We pulled citation counts for each article from Google Scholar and controlled for factors known to affect citation rates such as the prestige of the ...

Neutral citation, for example, “this field exists (refs. 1–20),” may on the face of it seem to be a fair practice, giving evenhanded and minimal citation credit to a range of preexisting ...

Each citation was evaluated by 2 reviewers in a blinded screening that included the assignment of a characteristic as well as an indication of whether the article retraction was documented.