Citing and Referencing Habits in Medicine and Social Sciences Journals in 2019 Abstract
Citing and referencing habits in Medicine and Social Sciences journals in 2019 Erika Alves dos Santos – School of Communication and Arts (ECA), Department of Information & Culture (CBD), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil / Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo de Segurança e Medicina do Trabalho (Fundacentro), Brazil / Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Italy Silvio Peroni – Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (DHARC), Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Italy / Research Centre for Open Scholarly Metadata, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Italy Marcos Luiz Mucheroni – School of Communication and Arts (ECA), Department of Information & Culture (CBD), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil Abstract Purpose – This article explores citing and referencing systems in Social Sciences and Medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives, considering bibliographic references as a facet of descriptive representation. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis of citing and referencing elements (i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations, and respective in-text reference pointers) identified citing and referencing habits within disciplines under consideration and errors occurring over the long term as stated by previous studies now expanded. Future expected trends of information retrieval from bibliographic metadata was gathered
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