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Should you cite unpublished internal lab reports in your formal manuscript?
Paper Discussion
Internal lab reports contain useful preliminary data but never went through peer review. Some supervisors encourage citing them; other scholars argue they should stay out of public manuscripts. Where do you draw your personal boundary?
Donald Thomas, Dennis Campbell and 23 others3 Comments-
I only cite internal lab reports if the full data can be provided to reviewers upon request.
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Journals vary widely in their acceptance of internal report citations.
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Prefer converting internal reports into preprints if you want to formally reference them publicly.
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