diff --git a/thesis/content/30_performance.tex b/thesis/content/30_performance.tex
index 64e0f1f..706a317 100644
--- a/thesis/content/30_performance.tex
+++ b/thesis/content/30_performance.tex
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Timing in the outer loop may display lower throughput than actual. This is the c
     \label{fig:benchmark-function:outer}
 \end{figure}
 
-To get accurate results, the benchmark is repeated 10 times. Each iteration is timed from beginning to end, marked by yellow in Figure \ref{fig:benchmark-function:outer}. For small task sizes, the iterations complete in a very short amount of time, which can have adverse effects on the results \cite{time-longer-sections}. Therefore, we repeat the code of the inner loop for a configurable amount, virtually extending the duration of a single iteration for these cases. \par
+To get accurate results, the benchmark is repeated 10 times. Each iteration is timed from beginning to end, marked by yellow in Figure \ref{fig:benchmark-function:outer}. For small task sizes, the iterations complete in a very short amount of time, which can have adverse effects on the results. Therefore, we repeat the code of the inner loop for a configurable amount, virtually extending the duration of a single iteration for these cases. \par
 
 \begin{figure}[h!tb]
     \centering
diff --git a/thesis/own.bib b/thesis/own.bib
index 6c7252e..a9f026f 100644
--- a/thesis/own.bib
+++ b/thesis/own.bib
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
 
 @INPROCEEDINGS{atomics-cost-analysis,
   author={Schweizer, Hermann and Besta, Maciej and Hoefler, Torsten},
-  booktitle={{2015 International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation (PACT)}}, 
-  title={{Evaluating the Cost of Atomic Operations on Modern Architectures}}, 
+  booktitle={{2015 International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation (PACT)}},
+  title={{Evaluating the Cost of Atomic Operations on Modern Architectures}},
   year={2015},
   volume={},
   number={},
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
 
 @INPROCEEDINGS{shared-ptr-perf,
   author={T. Ku and N. Jung},
-  booktitle={{Journal of Korea Game Society}}, 
-  title={{Implementation of Lock-Free shared\_ptr and weak\_ptr for C++11 multi-thread programming}}, 
+  booktitle={{Journal of Korea Game Society}},
+  title={{Implementation of Lock-Free shared\_ptr and weak\_ptr for C++11 multi-thread programming}},
   year={2021},
   volume={21},
   number={1},
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@
 
 @INPROCEEDINGS{hbm-arch-paper,
   author={Jun, Hongshin and Cho, Jinhee and Lee, Kangseol and Son, Ho-Young and Kim, Kwiwook and Jin, Hanho and Kim, Keith},
-  booktitle={2017 IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW)}, 
-  title={HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) DRAM Technology and Architecture}, 
+  booktitle={2017 IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW)},
+  title={HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) DRAM Technology and Architecture},
   year={2017},
   volume={},
   number={},
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@
 
 @ARTICLE{bench:heterogeneous-communication,
     author={Thune, Andreas and Reinemo, Sven-Arne and Skeie, Tor and Cai, Xing},
-    journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems}, 
-    title={Detailed Modeling of Heterogeneous and Contention-Constrained Point-to-Point MPI Communication}, 
+    journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
+    title={Detailed Modeling of Heterogeneous and Contention-Constrained Point-to-Point MPI Communication},
     year={2023},
     volume={34},
     number={5},
@@ -254,10 +254,3 @@
   date = "2023",
   howpublished = "personal communication"
 }
-
-@misc{time-longer-sections,
-  author = "Horst Schirmeier",
-  title={{Length of timed Sections}},
-  date = "2023",
-  howpublished = "personal communication"
-}
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