Timeline for How to cite authors from any country correctly?
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| Jan 8 at 21:56 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Ben Webster♦ | ||
| Jan 7, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | Martin Rubey | @TimothyChow -- I guess the same goes for men :-) | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 4:23 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Igor Pak: Just try with Mathscinet the experiment you propose. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 22:55 | comment | added | Igor Pak | @Tim Chow -- good point. I guess I would use the original name X in the citation and in the body of the paper use "as proved by Y (nee X) in [X], we have.." | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 22:51 | comment | added | Igor Pak | @Alexandre Eremenko -- this is my point, actually. How is the person supposed to search for "Oleĭnik" in the MathSciNet if one cannot type it? You search for "Oleinik" and find the right paper. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 19:04 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | The "best known" rule does not seem to work well with people who have changed their name (e.g., women who changed their name upon marriage and published under both names) or who have used a pseudonym. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | I strongly object. After all what is the purpose of the reference list? Is not that for the reader to find the cited paper? You will facilitate the task by writing the author's name EXACTLY as written in the paper. And YES, sometimes one has to cite the same author with different spellings. This is actually very common with names written in Cyrilic. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 16:09 | comment | added | Fedor Petrov | I remember an epic thread in Russian blogs on how to call Shiing-Shen Chern ("American" Черн, most common, or "Chinese" Чжень, used in old Russian texts, before he came to U.S.) There were hundreds of comments, but no agreement. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | Dirk | For Stanley J. Osher your MathSciNet and Google do not agree for me (let alone that googling is itself subjective): MathSciNet suggests "Stanley J. Osher" while "S. Osher" produces most Google hits for me ("Stanley Osher" is second place and "S. J. Osher" is third place). Another nice try is "Jeffrey C. Lagarias"… | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:24 | comment | added | Igor Pak | Not really. I recommend google test. Alternatively, MathSciNet has a preferred spelling, listing all other spellings in the author profile under "Published as" | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:22 | comment | added | Dirk | Thing is that "best known" is subjective… Or do you mean "best known to yourself"? An example from outside academia: Is is T.C. Boyle, T. Coraghessan Boyle or Tom Coraghessan Boyle? | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:10 | history | answered | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |