7. How to Compose References

References are a critical component of any research paper, supporting its credibility and academic contributions. Well-crafted and consistent references enhance the quality of the paper and provide readers with resources to explore related studies.

7-1. Papers to Include in References

1. Papers That Must Be Cited

1. Foundational Studies (Prior Research)

   • Cite prior studies to provide the academic background and context for your research.
   • Example:
     • "The Attention mechanism first proposed by Vaswani et al. (2017) forms the theoretical foundation of this study."

2. Papers on Baseline Methods

   • Include papers that describe the baseline methods used for comparisons.
   • Example:
     • "This study compares the proposed approach with RNN-based translation models (Cho et al., 2014) and transformer models (Vaswani et al., 2017)."

3. Datasets and Tools Used in Experiments

   • Cite papers describing datasets or frameworks used in your research.
   • Example:
     • "The WMT 2020 dataset (Barrault et al., 2020) and the PyTorch framework (Paszke et al., 2019) were utilized in the experiments."

2. Additional Papers to Include

1. Papers Defining the Problem or Proposing New Approaches

   • Cite studies that helped define the research problem or inspired the new approach.
   • Example:
     • "The importance of contextual similarity learning was emphasized in the BERT model proposed by Devlin et al. (2018)."

2. Related Papers Strengthening Your Contributions

   • Cite papers that support or validate the significance of your research.
   • Example:
     • "Conneau et al. (2020) highlighted the advantages of multilingual learning in translation studies."

7-2. Key Points When Writing References

1. Maintain Consistent Citation Style

• Follow the citation style required by the target journal or conference.
• Common styles:
  • APA Style: Common in social sciences and psychology.
  • IEEE Style: Widely used in engineering and technical papers.
  • MLA Style: Used in humanities.
  • Chicago Style: Common in history and philosophy.
  • BibTeX: Used with LaTeX for mathematics and engineering papers.

Examples:

• APA Style:
  • Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., ... & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 30.
• IEEE Style:
  • A. Vaswani, N. Shazeer, N. Parmar, J. Uszkoreit, L. Jones, A. N. Gomez, ... and I. Polosukhin, "Attention is all you need," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), vol. 30, pp. 5998-6008, 2017.

2. Use Reference Management Tools

• Reference management tools simplify the organization and formatting of references.
• Recommended tools:
  • Mendeley: For reference organization and citation generation.
  • Zotero: Web-based reference management.
  • EndNote: Professional reference management for researchers.
  • BibTeX: For LaTeX users.

3. Ensure Credibility and Currency of Sources

• Cite reliable papers published in reputable journals or conferences.
• Prioritize citing recent studies to maintain the paper’s relevance.
• Example:
  • "This study builds on the initial work on Attention mechanisms (Vaswani et al., 2017) and the latest advances in multilingual learning (Conneau et al., 2020)."

4. Avoid Over- or Under-Citing

• Include only references that directly support the arguments or context of your research.
• Over-citation can confuse readers, while under-citation can reduce credibility.

7-3. Tips for Writing References

1. Clearly Connect References to the Paper’s Argument

• Discuss the relevance of each cited paper in the main text.
• Example:
  • In the text: "The Attention mechanism proposed by Vaswani et al. (2017) inspired the design of the proposed model."
  • In references: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., et al. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 30.

2. Verify Accuracy of Author Names and Titles

• Ensure that author names, titles, publication years, and journal names are accurate. Use reliable sources like Google Scholar or DOI links for verification.

3. Review the Reference Section

• Confirm that all cited papers appear in the reference list and that there are no extraneous entries.

4. Organize References Properly

• Alphabetical Order (APA, MLA): Arrange by the first author’s surname.
• Order of Appearance (IEEE): List references in the order they are cited in the text.

7-4. Examples of References

Example of In-Text Citations

• "The Attention mechanism first introduced by Vaswani et al. (2017) revolutionized natural language processing by enabling efficient contextual learning."

Reference List (APA Style)

1. Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., ... & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 30.
2. Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2018). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 4171-4186.
3. Cho, K., van Merriënboer, B., Gulcehre, C., Bahdanau, D., Bougares, F., Schwenk, H., & Bengio, Y. (2014). Learning phrase representations using RNN encoder-decoder for statistical machine translation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1078.