Writing an academic work for an online journal is very demanding for some people especially when doing it for the first time. Using exclusive academic references can make your work look attractive. Forget about using standalone websites and Wikipedia when writing for online publishing groups, online publishing library or international open access journals.
Three questions to ask is whether you have picked the right references, whether you have cited all the references and referenced all citations, as well as whether the references are correctly done.
Here are tips on how to go about it:
1. Use original sources: Important studies will cite hundreds or thousands of other works from other scholars. In fact, important studies are known by looking at the references from other scholars. When writing your own paper for Online open access journals, instead of citing the source where you encountered these works or article lists, go to the original source or author work, read and cite the original work.
There are two benefits for this process: you get to learn more on the subject matter and secondly, you are more likely to end up citing influential work that is known to the reviewers and so they can familiarize with your work and regard it more credible if your new ideas are infused with the arguments they very well know or have come across.
2. Use articles widely cited: Reading referenced articles will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the subject matter. You can use tools such as Thomson-Reuters Web of Science to search for as many articles online and sort them by number of citations.
These tools will help you discover articles quickly. Most importantly, you discover the most important articles according to the academic community on a given topic.
Referencing the articles reveals to reviewers that you understand these topics clearly and well.
These tools will help you discover articles quickly. Most importantly, you discover the most important articles according to the academic community on a given topic.
Referencing the articles reveals to reviewers that you understand these topics clearly and well.
3. Source and cite articles from the journals where you will be submitting the work: If the reviewers from the journal like their work read by their authors, they will like your work. Themselves may have authored work in those journals, and to say more, if their work is credible, why not use their journals? Besides, you probably have made some account and signed to their library for free, therefore you already have free access to credible work.
