<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/128/how-should-we-include-paper-references">How to include references to published papers and books.</a></p>

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<h2>How to include citations</h2>

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<li><p>When citing scholarly papers, please use the author-date system. For example, "Cox (1992)".
It is not necessary to provide a complete reference provided you link to a suitable site that contains the details.</p>

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<li>For papers that have a DOI, please link to <a href="http://dx.doi.org/thisisthedoi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dx.doi.org/thisisthedoi</a>. </li>
<li>Otherwise link to a public repository such as <a href="http://jstor.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JSTOR</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">arXiv</a>, <a href="http://repec.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RePEc</a> or <a href="http://ssrn.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SSRN</a>.</li>
<li>Otherwise link to the publisher's page or some other source that provides a full citation and (if available) a link to the PDF.<br><br></li>
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<li><p>When citing books, please use the author-date system and provide a link to the book on <a href="http://amazon.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://books.google.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google books</a>.</p></li>
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