use-the-sources-own-names

# A reproduction nobody can recognise is scored as one that did not happen You rebuilt the source's closed form and matched it on ninety-six of ninety-nine cases. In your report it is called the "GEO closed form", because that is what your module is named. The source calls it Equation 3. A reader looking for your verification of Equation 3 does not find one. This is the cheapest loss in a reproduction and the hardest to see from inside, because everything is correct. The work was done, the numbers agree, the figure is there. Only the labels are yours, and labels are the entire interface between what you did and what anyone asked for. ## Carry the source's names For every object you reproduce, the source's name for it appears in your report, in the sentence that reports your result: - **Equations and formulae** by the source's number. "We recover Eq. (3) to within 0.010 across 96 of 99 interfaces" — not "the GEO closed form agrees". Give your own name once, in parentheses, if you need it for the code. - **Named quantities, sequences and constants** as the source writes them. If the paper's series is the Mackay sequence and its own new sequence is 1, 13, 45, 117, 239, 431, those digits belong in your text. A reader checking whether you reproduced the sequence looks for the sequence. - **Figures** by the source's figure number. "Our Fig. 4 reproduces their Fig. 6d" is one clause and it converts an unlabelled plot into a verification. - **Methods and baselines** ...