From ‘Envy, inequality and fertility’ to ‘Market size, trade and productivity’, using catchy three-part phrases in the titles of research papers can boost their citations, suggests a study.

As a result, even an accidental omission of a necessary citation may create an uncomfortable situation for a paper's authors. More problematic, however, are cases where authors deliberately omit ...

In scientific writing, we don't cite references by using footnotes. Instead, citations including author's last name and year are inserted directly into the text, like this (Kusnick, 1997). If there is ...