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James T. Evans, MD
Nassau County Medical Center East Meadow, NY

JAMA. 1990;264(24):3142-3143.

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In Reply.—

Drs Moeser and Shenoy join the ranks of those who would continue to place the burden of quotational and reference accuracy primarily on authors. They suggest additional warnings in journals' instructions to authors. Both letters acknowledge the need to ensure quotational and citational accuracy. Dr Moeser details a recent personal experience. I urge Dr Moeser to communicate his findings to the editor of the journal that published the article with errors. Dr Moeser cites an article by Clarfield¹ after a sentence containing the term "back-referencing." My reading of the article by Clarfield reveals that it clearly refers to a quotational error—he retrieved the original reference. I must assume that Dr Moeser's term (back-referencing) includes both reference and quotational errors. Interestingly, the stimulus for Clarfield's anecdote was a fairly strong warning from the journal's editor.²

Dr Shenoy reminds us of his article about Sir James Paget, whose . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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