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Improved comments for 'References' for clarity.
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ab3735 committed Apr 13, 2020
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# References

- Not referencing the first paper that proved a fact, e.g. that TSP is NP-hard.
- Not referencing the **first paper** that proved a fact.
- Quoting data/fact without referencing. Where did it come from? Your own experiments or is it secondary data?
- List of references not in alphabetical order by first author surname.
- Some references are referenced as if they were a website when in fact they are published (No need to give URL for every entry, especially books).
- Some references are cited as if they were a website when in fact they are published. (No need to give URL for every entry, especially books.)
- Some references lack crucial information such as venue of publication.
- Students relied on unreliable websites rather than formally published sources.
- In-text citations look like "(Author, date)", not like e.g. [1], etc.
- Not all references listed at the end were cited in text.
- "et al." is used in in-text citations, but you must provide the full list of authors in the list of references (i.e. do not use "et al." here).
- Students relied on unreliable websites, rather than formally published sources.
- Not following the referencing style standard. Correct in-text citations should look like "(Author, date)", not like e.g. [1], etc.
- Listing references that were not cited in text.
- Using "et al." in the list of references. "et al." is used in in-text citations, but you must provide the full list of authors in the list of references (i.e. do not use "et al." here).

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