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26.2 common dangers 1. Only using a reference without mentioning the author’s name is certainly the most concise form. But it has a major disadvantage. It forces the reader to break off reading the text and go to the bibliography to see which author is being referred to. The reader may also need to ascertain whether the author is referring to his / her own work. It can also be ambiguous when the phrase
the author/s is used – is this a reference to the authors of the current paper or to other
authors in the literature 2. If you refer to a previous paper that you have written, make sure it is clear that this paper was written by you and not by another author. Just mentioning your name is not enough because the reader may have forgotten that the paper that he/she is reading is by you.
3. Within the same manuscript do not mix the year format with the bibliographical number format. Your choice will depend on the journal. Note the best solution maybe to use more than one form in order to create variety. A review of the literature can be very tedious if every sentence either begins or ends with the name of an author or a reference. Also, you may need to change the focus from author to findings and vice versa.
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