ValnaoLibrarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
“This is more complex than it may at first appear, as references can be detailed by authors in a variety of different ways, often do not include DOIs, and simple tools to identify hallucinated references can produce false positives,” Graf told us by email.
It’s not complex when you have a fucking style manual which specifies exactly how you detail references so you don’t have this kind of problem.
kamenladyNot especially. I’ve worked in the field and unless you get more well-known authors with egos who don’t care to follow the requirements — and there certainly are — you grab a current style manual while working and do some due diligence. Ignorance and fame are not an excuse.