30-11-2025, 09:00 PM
For all your questions, Rafal, I would suggest comparing these aspects in other recent publications in the journal
"I" should not make or break the review, but it hardly helps to make your article look more academic. Weird phrasing to avoid "I" might be just as bad, though. "We" is outdated in my opinion, unless you actually have a co-author. In other words, it's difficult.
The thing with internet resources is: You do not want the reviewer to wonder how reputable the source for one of your key claims is. Therefore, it is best to avoid any independent blogs, unfortunately, even if their contents might be more up-to-date and rigorously checked than the 1890s book that can be a 'proper' source depending on the subject. Any institutional website, however, should be fine: research libraries, universities, academic platforms etc. in most contexts, established media in some, everything else only with good reasoning. But you should of course always try to get to the source material (i.e. an academic paper/book). Also, avoid google books or similar databases if possible, provide a permanent link to the repository of a research library instead.
Using non-English sources is actually a plus, particularly if your reviewers are aware of relevant publications in your field in other languages, then it might be even necessary in some cases. It's a regular complaint by Spanish, French or German-speaking academics that Anglophone researchers ignore foreign-language material.
To add to this: You can significantly simplify this by using a reference manager such as Zotero (there are others as well, but i am not aware of any other freeware). There are tools to streamline the whole process from importing citations from library catalogues to inserting the footnote in the right style.
"I" should not make or break the review, but it hardly helps to make your article look more academic. Weird phrasing to avoid "I" might be just as bad, though. "We" is outdated in my opinion, unless you actually have a co-author. In other words, it's difficult.
The thing with internet resources is: You do not want the reviewer to wonder how reputable the source for one of your key claims is. Therefore, it is best to avoid any independent blogs, unfortunately, even if their contents might be more up-to-date and rigorously checked than the 1890s book that can be a 'proper' source depending on the subject. Any institutional website, however, should be fine: research libraries, universities, academic platforms etc. in most contexts, established media in some, everything else only with good reasoning. But you should of course always try to get to the source material (i.e. an academic paper/book). Also, avoid google books or similar databases if possible, provide a permanent link to the repository of a research library instead.
Using non-English sources is actually a plus, particularly if your reviewers are aware of relevant publications in your field in other languages, then it might be even necessary in some cases. It's a regular complaint by Spanish, French or German-speaking academics that Anglophone researchers ignore foreign-language material.
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To add to this: You can significantly simplify this by using a reference manager such as Zotero (there are others as well, but i am not aware of any other freeware). There are tools to streamline the whole process from importing citations from library catalogues to inserting the footnote in the right style.