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When is it acceptable to cite your own unpublished internal technical reports?
Paper Discussion
Internal technical reports contain preliminary analysis that has not gone through peer review. Some supervisors encourage citing them while other scholars discourage this practice entirely. What boundary conditions do you apply for citing your own unpublished internal documents?
Justin Scott, Jun Shen and 65 others4 Comments-
Only cite internal reports when no equivalent peer‑reviewed alternative exists.
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Make it explicitly clear in‑text that this source remains unpublished internal material.
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Be ready to supply the full report file to reviewers upon request during revision.
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Avoid stacking large numbers of unpublished internal references inside main manuscript.
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