Literature citations and references

Literature citation is important while writing a research paper. It’s easy when you write the paper from the beginning. You include a citation in the body of the manuscript and put its corresponding literature reference in the Reference section of the paper. And there have been many applications which can help us. But how to deal with these issues when you have some materials before? Today I learned a trick from Dr. Rob Law to deal with this situation.

The solution is like this. First I go through the reference list, and search each item in the body of the paper with the search function provided by the word processor. Any reference that is listed but not cited would be indicated a "NC" preceding. Then go through the main text, put a "NL" in the text where reference was cited but not listed.

Just for backup.

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