/methodology/approach The authors analysed reference elements, i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations and respective in-text … reference pointers, from 729 articles published in 147 journals across the 27 subject areas. Findings The outcomes of the …

/methodology/approach The analysis of citing and referencing elements (i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations and respective in-text … reference pointers) identified citing and referencing habits within disciplines under consideration and errors occurring over …