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Attributions and Citations: Giving Credit Wherever Due

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In this chapter, we highlight the importance of expanding attributions and acknowledgments to roles and responsibilities beyond primary authors of journal articles or principal investigators of grant proposal documents. This would be applicable especially to scientific research projects that involved diverse skill sets and expertise.

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    For instance, the fact that citations should supply enough details for readers to find the referenced material is not an original proposition of the author of this book. Therefore, a suitable source such as the reference in [1] has been cited with all available publication details.

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    http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/ref/asce.shtml.

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    http://www.ieee.org/documents/style_manual.pdf.

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    https://www.asme.org/shop/proceedings/conference-publications/references.

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    Defined by the Oxford Dictionaries as “something known by most people.”

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    Both reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, during the review process.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Dipankar Deb

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India

    Rajeeb Dey

  3. Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina E. Balas

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Deb, D., Dey, R., Balas, V.E. (2019). Attributions and Citations: Giving Credit Wherever Due. In: Engineering Research Methodology. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 153. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2947-0_3

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