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July 30, 2007
Reference styles
I was talking to my sister last night and mentioned that I was cleaning up footnotes (and trying to figure out how to refer to a manuscript diary from the archives). She pointed out that my experience of reference styles is unusual - I've always been in school, more or less. She has a B.A. and two masters. Each time in school separated by several years. She was annoyed to find out this last time (2005-06, was it?) how reference styles have changed.
I have to admit, it can be annoying. I recently broke down and bought a 15th edition Chicago Manual of Style. My old copy was 12th, and things have changed. You know, like the whole INVENTION of the Web.
The general principle of making-it-possible-for-readers-to-find-your-reference-for-themselves hasn't changed, but the way we go about doing that sure has.
I hate inline citation because I like chatty footnotes. Oh, well.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 30, 2007 8:39 AM