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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal (retractionwatch.com)
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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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.