The first part of an online textbook citation looks identical to a print textbook citation.
It says the article "contains portions of other authors' writings … without sufficient attribution" and that excerpts from Wikipedia and two textbooks appeared without citation in the paper's introduction.
This search process identified ≈6,000 potential citations, including original journal articles, textbook chapters, and reviews, which were manually culled for relevance to animal sentinel issues; this process resulted in ≈200 citations available for final analysis.
Although prepublication biases have been well described in epidemiologic textbooks, postpublication biases, such as selective citation, have been less well documented.
The following strategy is used: peer-reviewed literature on this topic in journals with a science citation index was searched, as well as clinical textbooks from the various clinical specialties.
1) The citation of nothing more than a 1000-page geneurosciencecience textbook for supporting their hypothesis of dorsal horn spontaneous activity is not appropriate.
Some textbooks for learners of the language mark both the citation tone and the sandhi tone to assist the learner.
And in case you are wondering about the basis for my assertions here, I can provide these: (1) I am currently completing work on the third edition of my nutrition textbook for health care professionals, which encompasses well over 5,000 citations.
Data sources All language literature search of Medline, Medline in Process, Embase, Assia, Caredata, Child Data, CINAHL, ISI Proceedings, Sciences Citation, Social Science Citation Index, SIGLE, Scopus, TRIP, and Social Care Online for original study articles, references, textbooks, and conference abstracts until May 2007.
We are not able to provide exhaustive citation of a literature that is vast and plentiful, but we point the reader to a set of classical textbooks that reflect the state-of-the-art.
