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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
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The USA has several: MLA, APA, Imrad, etc but none of them explicitly require control numbers or serial numbers from publications.
Meanwhile, I knew a guy in the UK who did a dissertation on market economies and they literally did not specify any kind of format for him at all.
Journals have “house styles” which will specify which one to use or any modifications, but they generally follow Chicago and can specify to require control numbers/serial numbers/DOIs if they wanted to.