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240Citation of secondary sources with the accompanying list of references placed atthe end of a BR provides evidence of variation across disciplines. A simple quantitativesurvey of the journals selected for the study shows a common tendency in economicsand chemistry in opposition to linguistics. None of the reviewing journals in chemistryand few in economics (20%) allow for this kind of citation in BRs, while most journalsin linguistics (91%) include them. The extreme variation in this respect betweenlinguistics, on one side, and chemistry and economics, on the other, suggests differentattitudes in sharing disciplinary knowledge.Considering, for instance, how the word concept(s) appears in the examples takenfrom chemistry and linguistics, it seems that reviewers link the new publication toaccorded concepts in the field in different ways:[C#7] Concepts such as Kuhn's segment length for flexible molecules, thepersistence length of rigid molecules, excluded volume effects and rigidityeffects on conformation are presented clearly in the first chapter.[L#5] Chapter 5, "Empathy Perspective," presents a refined version of the theoryof empathy described in Kuno and Kaburaki (1977) and shows how this conceptinteracts with various phenomena in English, Japanese, Turkish, and Korean.The absence of detailed reference (name, date) in chemistry, indicates that theconcepts referred to (e.g., ‘Kuhn’s concept of flexible length for flexible molecules’) arewell established in the field and therefore do not require further specification. Inlinguistics, on the other hand, example [L#5] illustrates a common practice of reviewers’providing detailed references of name and date (‘Kuno and Kaburaki (1977)’).