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 ==== References ==== ==== References ====
-<wrap important></wrap>Remember why we use references? This is because we have to back up each statement in a scientific text with supporting evidences. These can be either previously published **and** peer-reviewed literature, or own data. In either case, the supporting information must be invariant with time. Thus, **Wikipedia cannot serve as a reference for scientific text**, because article contents are subject to change! +<wrap important></wrap>Remember why we use references? This is because we have to back up each statement in a scientific text with supporting evidences. These can be either previously published **and** peer-reviewed literature, or own data. In either case, the supporting information must be invariant with time. Thus, **Wikipedia cannot serve as a reference for scientific text** for several reasons. One of the most important ones is that article contents are subject to change over time! 
-   * Make sure that references in the text, and your bibliography is correctly and consistently formatted. We prefer the //author, year// format for in-text citations over numbers. +   * Make sure that references in the text, and your bibliography is correctly and consistently formatted. We prefer the //author, year// format for in-text citations over numbers. 
 +You can read more about how to cite in this document provided by the University of Cologne (in German only): [[http://uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/storyline2/story_content/external_files/Handout_%C3%9Cberpr%C3%BCfbarkeit.pdf|Handout_Ueberpruefbarkeit]] 
 ==== Abbreviations ==== ==== Abbreviations ====
 Abbreviations, that cannot safely be considered common knowledge, have to be explicitly introduced.  Abbreviations, that cannot safely be considered common knowledge, have to be explicitly introduced.