Scholarly works cite other sources in order to reflect previous ideas and research and to give credit to authors of those works. This guide provides links to resources and tools to help support citation best practices for representation.
These tools can help you audit your citations. To use them, your file of citations/references must be in BibTeX format (.bib) Citation managers like Zotero, EndNote, etc. can export citations as a .bib file. Other literature databases like Web of Science can as well. For those that don't have that option, like PubMed, you can export to citation manager style, import into your citation manager, and export as .bib.
If you have a manuscript with references that aren't in a citation manager, you can use this Citation Finder to scrape the references from your document and retrieve them in PubMed. You can import the PubMed references into your citation manager and then export as a .bib.
What about generative AI? Can it help?
Goyanes, de-Marcos, and Dominguez-Diaz (2024) offer a step-by-step research guide, with prompt examples and detailed clarifications, to automatically classify the gender from names through ChatGPT (as well as two partially tools). They refer to previous works noting ChatGPT's stability and performance with this task.
How can you find additional citations and be more representative of all scholarship? Consider these tips:
Many library databases have options to display your results differently. This can help highlight additional papers and provide a path to diversify your citations. Consider these tips:
1. Perform a search in a database below and use the tips to display your results.
After performing your search, you can use the Analyze results to get a visual representation of your results:
From there, the "cards" display gives you options to see your results: click on the double-headed arrow at the top right of the card you are interested in:
After performing your search, use the menus at left to refine your results:
After performing your search, use the menus at left to refine your results.
2. After you've found additional citations, use the Tools above to audit those sources for author characteristics.