Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Citing yourself
You know how when you send an article out for review, you're supposed to remove references to yourself as author in order to preserve anonymity, right? What do you do when you cite yourself? I cite my diss in a couple of places in an article I'm working on. Any thoughts on how to do that and still preserve anonymity? When I do it in the third person (... as Hammer notes...) it seems clunky and, to me, patently obvious that I'm citing myself.
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I don't see any way around it other than citing yourself in the 3rd person like you would any other author. Then you can always change it once the article is approved.
As Traductor says, you should go with the (clunky) third person. While you're at it, you might as well thrown in some self-laudatory phrasings like: "as the eminent medievalist Mike Hammer has noted..."
Another option is to write the citation in such a way that you seem to be skating on the edge of plagerism--that is, go through the argument in your voice, without mentioning your diss., but at in a strategic spot simply include a parenthetical reference to yourself. I would try to message it so you don't have to use "as Hammer notes" formula.
I've recently discovered that a number of journals do not want anonymity. I was surprised to learn this as I am researching which journals to send off an article I have recently finished. Anonymity may not be a problem after all.
That's true, Dave. When my paper got accepted by Viator, I was surprised to find that the reviewers referred to me by name.
Did they refer to you as the eminent medievalist?
Even if they didn't, I know deep inside that I am one, and that's all that matters.
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