Reproducing and citing a paper

Recomputing a figure

The Reproduce section lists each request as a full address on the API. Send it with your own key, as any request is sent; the paper never carries one.

Some endpoints a paper uses are on paid plans only, the march cost figures among them. The endpoint access table says which plan each endpoint needs.

• How to send a key
• Which plan each endpoint needs
• The calculations on the Methods tab

When a number moves

The catalogue is corrected as it is checked, and a request answers from the catalogue as it stands. A figure recomputed today can differ from the paper's when a record it reads has been corrected since.

Where a paper names the data it was computed on, it is in the status line. When a recomputed number differs, compare the records the request reads with the changelog before reading the difference as an error in the paper. A wrong figure is worth reporting, and the Data quality tab says how.

• Read the changelog
• How to report a wrong figure

Citing a paper

Each paper gives two forms, each with a copy button:

• A reference in the form a reference list uses: authors, year, title, kind of document and publisher, then the DOI as a link, or the paper's page when it has none.
• A BibTeX entry: @techreport for a technical report or note, with the publisher as the institution, and @misc for a preprint or white paper. It carries the DOI when there is one, the page's address, and the review status as a note.

Each paper page also carries the citation tags Google Scholar reads (title, each author and affiliation, date, DOI and publisher) and structured data naming it a report or scholarly article, so a reference manager can import it from the page.

A copy to keep

Download PDF on a paper opens the browser's print dialogue, set for A4: no site navigation, a serif face, each link's address printed after it, and the page's address under the title. Choose Save as PDF to keep a copy.