Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Can you reference a referenced fact?

If you are writing a scientific paper, and there is a fact which is stated and referenced in another paper, and you want to use that fact in your paper...





A. Do you have find the original article and look for the fact and cite it





B. Or do you just cite the reference without having to look it up





C. Or can you just cite the paper where you found the fact?

Can you reference a referenced fact?
C.u can just cite the paper where u found the fact
Reply:you should look it up, just in case it was referenced wrong. Usually that doesn't happen, but you never know.


No comments:

Post a Comment