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Answer by Rebecca J. Stones for How do I handle a colleague's gender change...
TL;DR: I have this problem when citing my own papers. I concluded that I'm citing a paper, not a person, and generally cite my old papers as they stand (example below). However, if someone asked me to...
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You're weighing up factors against vs. in favour of a particular action, namely using your colleague's new initial.Points in favour:Your colleague feels strongly about itYour colleague has explicitly...
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Depending on how your citations are formatted, you will probably find the initial doesn't matter. For example, a reference listed as:"Smith, M; Bloggs, J; Jones, A; Brown, B. J. Foo Bar, vol 6, p. 200,...
View ArticleAnswer by user74139 for How do I handle a colleague's gender change when...
To answer your question:Do you have any advice on how to handle this situation? Would a change from G. Smith to M. Smith be acceptable/reasonable?Yes, it would be perfectly reasonable to do so.Make it...
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Well, this whole depends on how you do feel. Any discussion about whether the reference is "correct" or "possible to follow" are rubbish, for two reasons:You can list both names, at least in the...
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Use the name the author prefers. There is little chance of confusion. In a given citation style, there are at least three and possibly more separate factors pointing toward the correct citation: 1)...
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Very similar things have happened previously. The following really happened, but the name has been changed.A Russian whose papers had been translated under the name Chaikovskii suddenly started...
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Disclaimer: I'm not active in the field of academia itself.As others have mentioned there is clear precedent and standardization across this field, and for good reason. It's a field based on fact and...
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Do you have any advice on how to handle this situation?Name them exactly as in the publication, using the old name for publications before the name change and the new one for publications after the...
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Answer by Clumsy cat for How do I handle a colleague's gender change when...
This is really making a mountain out of a mole hill. Do the thing that will make the author happy. Even hyper famous papers have all sorts of oddities and mistakes in them; it is likely that nobody is...
View ArticleAnswer by chessofnerd for How do I handle a colleague's gender change when...
One of the primary goals of citing literature is to help others find that literature. Citing a paper differently than it exists in a journal is antithetical to this goal. Unless Smith changes George to...
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Our scientific handbook demand that external sources should be cited as precise as possible and should not be modified.So you cite the policy, and then explore violating this?For me, DSVA's...
View ArticleAnswer by Christine for How do I handle a colleague's gender change when...
I advise you strongly to use their new name and gender. Especially in the period right after the change, she's very sensitive about this. It's very upsetting when people remind you of your previous...
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Is it an option to ask M Smith if she would be ok if the first citation were to read as the following? Smith, M. (published G.) 2014, recent advances in foo, international journal of foo sciences...
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We are currently working on a conference paper where we plan to cite and discuss a paper as a related work. It was written by a colleague at the same university who has kindly offered to help us...
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