What warrants acknowledgement or citation in a dissertation? I have just finished my dissertation and just have a question about acknowledgements and citation.
There was a line in a proof of a paper that I did not follow and someone told me what it meant.
Does that warrant citation or does it look silly citing such things? It wasn’t their own work, they explained where it came from.
Citing in this case is unnecessary. An acknowledgement would be gracious, but also not strictly necessary. My personal inclination would be to do it if their explanation led to some insight on my part.
But &quot;Thanks to JDoe for their insights into Theorem 35 of Gauss&quot;, or whatever, is, as I say, gracious.
It is even less necessary if the person's job is to teach you stuff.