Questions tagged [citations]

Citation questions regards finding or discussing sources for theorems, conjectures and statements in articles, books or other credible sources.

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Should I not cite an arxiv.org paper which otherwise seems to be unpublished?

I want to cite a paper which is on arxiv.org but is not published or reviewed anywhere, and no publication or review seems to be in the pipeline. Would citing this arxiv.org paper be bad? Should I ...
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Cite articles or book where I first found the result?

I'm writing up a paper and I'm not sure how to cite a few things. It concerns a conjecture made by Quillen. Some work has been done showing it's true in some cases, false in others. These results I ...
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Reference request: recurrence relation for Catalan numbers

I would like to know if the following recurrence relation for Catalan numbers (see mathoverflow.net/questions/191524 and also math.stackexchange.com/questions/2113830) has appeared in a paper or a ...
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