Citing References: Why and How To Do It: MSC in High Performance Computing
Citing References: Why and How To Do It: MSC in High Performance Computing
Glossary
Citation : short reference in the body of your text to a relevant work Reference List : full bibliographic details of the references cited in your text Further Reading : full bibliographic details of work which has influenced you but is not cited in your text. Bibliography : full bibliographic details of references cited in your text and of work which has influenced you but are not cited in your text. Less used in scientific and technical publications.
Personal communication
Where you have to use information that has come to you as an individual rather than presented in the published literature, you indicate this to be personal communication and do so in the text of your document. You do not need to include such sources in a reference list. Example: e.g. Many designers do not understand the needs of disabled people according to J. O. Reiss (personal communication, April 18, 1997). Before referring to what someone has told you, ask them if they will allow you to do so.
Secondary References
If you refer to a work of which the only account you have read is that recorded in the work of someone else, you need to make it clear you have not read the original work. In the reference list, some sources direct authors to provide only the reference of the work they have actually read; be consistent or take advice. Examples: Lee (1993) as cited by Smith (2000) then include both works in your reference list Lee as cited by Smith (2000) then include only the work you have actually read, ie the Smith article You have to have confidence in the source you have read to rely on it like this. Even work cited by reputable sources may bear scrutiny; see the minireview published by Thomas Katz (2005) on a mistake perpetuated in the literature on olefin metatheses.
Conference Proceedings
EDITORS LAST NAME, INITIALS (Ed(s)) (Year of Publication) Title of Conference (to include conferences date and/or location). Place of publication: Publisher. GERNDT, M. & KRANZLMULLER, D. (Eds) (2006) High Performance Computing and Communications. Second International Conference, HPCC 2006. 13-15 Sept. 2006. Munich, Germany. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.4208). Berlin: Germany, Springer.
Conference Paper
AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, AUTHOR'S INITIALS. (Year of publication) Title of Paper. IN: CONFERENCE EDITORS LAST NAME, INITIALS (Ed(s)) Title of Conference (to include conferences date and/or location), ppPage(s) of contribution, Place of publication: Publisher. RAGHAVAN, P. (2004) Advanced algorithms and software components for scientific computing: an introduction. IN: DONGARRA, J., MADSEN, K. & WASNIEWSKI, J. (Eds.) Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing. 7th International Workshop, PARA 2004. 20-23 June 2004. Lyngby, Denmark. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3732), pp590-592, Berlin: Germany, Springer-Verlag.
Journal Article
AUTHORs LAST NAME, AUTHORS INITIALS (Year of publication) Article title. Title of journal. Volume (Issue), Page numbers of article. HEIN, J., REID, F., SMITH, L., BUSH, I., GUEST, M. & SHERWOOD, P. (2005) On the performance of molecular dynamics applications on current high-end systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Series A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences), 363, 1987-1998. N.B. journal abbreviations if you need to find a full journal title from its standard abbreviation or vice versa, try Web of Sciences (http://wok.mimas.ac.uk) journal abbreviation list, JAS (McKiernan, 2004) or ask staff at a library service desk as there are print publications we have which may help.
Report
AUTHORs LAST NAME, AUTHORS INITIALS (Year of publication) Title of the report. Name of organisation publishing the report. Report number: number of report. HENTY, D. (1995) Craft Performance Optimisation, T3D In-Depth Support Team, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh. Report number: EPCC-TR95-04.
Thesis or Dissertation
AUTHORS LAST NAME, AUTHORs INITIALS. (Year of publication) Title of theses or dissertation. Designation, (and type). Name of institution to which submitted. KOCHENDERFER, M. J. (2006) Adaptive Modelling and Planning for Learning Intelligent Behaviour, Thesis (PhD), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Web Page
AUTHORs LAST NAME, INITIALS. (Year of publication if available) Title of webpage [online]. Place of publication, Publisher (if available). Available from: URL [Accessed date]. Bilbao Crystallographic Server: how to cite us [online]. Condensed Matter Physics Dept., University of the Basque Country. Available from: http://www.cryst.ehu.es/html/doc/bcs_cite.adp [Accessed 20/12/2006]. N.B. no author is given for this webpage so the reference starts with the title.
Further Reading
BRITISH STANDARDS INSITUTIONS (1983) BS 6371:1983 Recommendations for citation of unpublished documents , London: BSI BRITISH STANDARDS INSITUTIONS (1990) BS 5605:1990 Recommendations for citing and referencing published material, London: BSI EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (2006) Acknowledging your sources: in your essay. [online] Available from: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/howto/infoskills_citations.shtml [Accessed 20/12/2006]. HOLLAND, M. (2005) How to Cite References. [online] Bournemouth University Library. Available from: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/academic_services/documents/Library/Citing_References.pdf [Accessed 20/12/2006]. INFORMATION LITERACIES GROUP (2006) References and citations explained [online] Leeds University Library. Available from: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/training/referencing/ [Accessed 20/12/2006].
Secondary References
If you refer to a work of which the only account you have read is that recorded in the work of someone else, you need to make it clear you have not read the original work. In the reference list, some sources direct authors to provide only the reference of the work they have actually read; be consistent or take advice. Examples: Lee [88] as cited by Smith [89] then include both works in your reference list Lee as cited by Smith [88] then include only the work you have actually read, ie the Smith article You have to have confidence in the source you have read to rely on it like this. Even work cited by reputable sources may bear scrutiny; see the minireview published by Thomas Katz [3] on a mistake perpetuated in the literature on olefin metatheses.
Conference Proceedings
[citation number] Editor initials. Editor last name, Ed(s)., Title of Proceedings, date of conference, year of conference, location of conference. City of publication: Publisher, year of publication. [4] M. Gerndt and D. Kranzlmuller, Eds., High Performance Computing and Communications. Proc. Second International Conference, HPCC 2006, 13-15 Sept, 2006, Munich, Germany, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2006, vol. 4208.
Conference Paper
[citation number] Paper author initials. Paper author last name, Title of Paper, in Title of Proceedings, date of conference, year of conference, location of conference. City of publication: Publisher, year of publication, pp. papers page numbers [5] P. Raghavan, "Advanced algorithms and software components for scientific computing: an introduction," in Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing. 7th International Workshop, PARA 2004, 20-23 June, 2004, Lyngby, Denmark, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Dongarra, K. Madsen, and J. Wasniewski, Eds., Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2004, vol. 3732, pp. 590-592.
N.B. The conference examples here have additional information because the proceedings are published as part of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science for which publisher, publication and volume details are provided. The order of this information may be presented with volume number after Eds and page numbers after publisher, so that the date is last.
Journal Article
[citation number] Author initials. Author last name, Title of Article, Title of Journal, vol. journal volume, no. journal issue number, pp. article pages, year of publication. [6] J. Hein, F. Reid, L. Smith, I. Bush, M. Guest, and P. Sherwood, "On the performance of molecular dynamics applications on current high-end systems," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Series A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences), vol. 363, pp. 1987-1998, 2005.
N.B. i) the article above has six authors in total and there is an IEEE convention [10] of using et al. when there are six or more authors (ie J. Hein et al., ) although in some IEEE Journals this convention has not been used and all authors are listed. Be consistent in what you choose to do, or take advice.
ii) journal abbreviations if you need to find a full journal title from its abbreviation or vice versa, try Web of Sciences (http://wok.mimas.ac.uk) journal abbreviation list, JAS or ask staff at a library service desk as there are print publications we have which may help.
[7]
J. Yeomans. (2001, Jun.) Citing preprints. LIS-SCITECH mailing list [Online]. Available: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-scitech.html
Monograph Series
[citation number] Author initials. Author last name, Title of Volume, ser. Title of Series, City of publication: Publisher, vol. volume number, Year of publication. [8] P. J. Schmid and D. S. Henningson, Stability and transition in shear flows, ser. Applied Mathematical Sciences, New York: Springer-Verlag, vol. 142, 2001.
Personal Communication
Where you have to use information which has come to you as an individual, rather than read in the published literature, indicate the information to be private communication in your reference list. [citation number] Correspondents initials. Correspondents last name, Correspondents address, private communication, date. [11] C.J. Kaufman, Rocky Mountain Research Lab., Boulder, CO, private communication, May 1995
Report
[citation number] Author initials. Author last name, Title of report, Affiliation of report writer(s), address of report writers Rep. report number, year of publication. [13] D. Henty, Craft Performance Optimisation, T3D In-Depth Support Team, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh Rep. EPCC-TR95-04, 1995.
Thesis or Dissertation
[citation number] Author initials. Author last name, Title of thesis, degree type. designation, School/Department, Awarding Institution, Year of award. [14] M. J. Kochenderfer, Adaptive Modelling and Planning for Learning Intelligent Behaviour, Ph.D. thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2006.
Web Page
[citation number] Author initials. Author last name. (Year article posted/updated, Date article posted/updated) Title of page. [Online]. Available: URL or appropriate [9] Bilbao Crystallographic Server: how to cite us. [Online]. Available: http://www.cryst.ehu.es/html/doc/bcs_cite.adp
N.B. No author or date is given for this webpage and they are omitted from the reference.
N.B. If G. McKiernan was the author of [13] as well, his name would be given as usual because [12] has a different author.
Further Reading
[1] [2] [3] [6] [7] Recommendations for citation of unpublished documents, BSI Standard BS6371:1983. Recommendations for citing and referencing published material, BSI Standard BS 5605:1990 Edinburgh University Library 2006. Acknowledging your sources: in your essay. [online]. http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/howto/infoskills_citations.shtml [Accessed 11 April 2006]. Information Literacies Group (2006) References and citations explained [online] Leeds University Library. Available: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/training/referencing/ M. Holland (2005, Jul.) How to Cite References. [Online] Bournemouth University Library. Available: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/academic_services/documents/Library/Citing_References.pdf
The full-text of British Standards are available to staff and students of the University of Edinburgh from British Standards Online see the Librarys databases web pages for details: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/databases/findlita.shtml