17 : Documentation II: Specific Content
- Introduction
- The Advent of Electronic Sources
- 17.4 Introduction
- 17.5 Permanence
- 17.6 Authority
- 17.7 Content available from multiple online sources
- 17.8 Publications available in both print and electronic forms
- 17.9 Uniform resource locators (URLs)
- 17.10 URLs and punctuation
- 17.11 URLs and line breaks
- 17.12 Access dates
- 17.13 Revision dates
- 17.14 Permanent source identifiers
- 17.15 Specific examples
- Books
- Information to Be Included
- 17.16 Basic versus supplementary information
- 17.17 Elements of the information
- 17.18 Flexibility and consistency
- 17.19 Foreign terms
- Author’s Name
- 17.20 Form of name
- 17.21 Author’s name in text citation
- 17.22 Given name supplied
- 17.23 Authors preferring initials
- 17.24 Publications preferring initials
- 17.25 Monarchs, saints, and the like
- 17.26 One author
- 17.27 Two authors
- 17.28 Three authors
- 17.29 More than three authors
- 17.30 Multiple authors
- 17.31 Author’s name in title
- 17.32 Anonymous works: unknown authorship
- 17.33 “Anonymous” as author
- 17.34 Anonymous works: known authorship
- 17.35 Pseudonyms: unknown authorship
- 17.36 Pseudonyms: known authorship
- 17.37 Pseudonyms rarely used
- 17.38 Descriptive phrase as “author”
- 17.39 Cross-references for pseudonyms
- 17.40 Alternative real names
- 17.41 Editor in place of author
- 17.42 Editor or translator in addition to author
- 17.43 Supplementary information
- 17.44 “With the assistance of” and the like
- 17.45 Editor versus author
- 17.46 Authors of forewords and the like
- 17.47 Organization as author
- Title
- 17.48 Additional discussion
- 17.49 Italics
- 17.50 Headline-style capitalization
- 17.51 Sentence-style capitalization
- 17.52 Spelling and such
- 17.53 Subtitles: the colon
- 17.54 Two subtitles
- 17.55 Use of “or”
- 17.56 “And other stories” and such
- 17.57 Dates in titles
- 17.58 Titles within titles
- 17.59 Italicized terms within titles
- 17.60 Quotations as titles
- 17.61 Question marks or exclamation points
- 17.62 Very long titles
- 17.63 Older titles
- 17.64 Non-English titles
- 17.65 Translation added
- 17.66 Original plus published translation
- 17.67 Unpublished translation
- Chapters or Other Titled Parts of a Book
- 17.68 Chapter in a single-author book
- 17.69 Contribution to a multiauthor book
- 17.70 Several contributions to the same book
- 17.71 Conference proceedings
- 17.72 Book-length work within a book
- 17.73 Chapter originally published elsewhere
- 17.74 Author’s introduction and the like
- 17.75 Introductions or chapters by someone other than the author
- Letters and Other Communications in Published Collections
- 17.76 Writers’ names
- 17.77 Citing letters and such in the author-date system
- 17.78 Several citations to same published collection
- Edition
- 17.79 Editions other than the first
- 17.80 Modern editions of the classics
- 17.81 Reprint editions
- 17.82 Online editions
- Multivolume Works
- 17.83 Volume numbers
- 17.84 Citing the work as a whole
- 17.85 Citing a particular volume in a note
- 17.86 Citing a particular volume in a bibliography or reference list
- 17.87 Chapters and other parts of individual volumes
- 17.88 One volume in two or more books
- 17.89 Authors and editors of multivolume works
- Series
- 17.90 Series titles, numbers, and editors
- 17.91 Whether to include series titles
- 17.92 Series editor
- 17.93 Series or multivolume work?
- 17.94 Multivolume work within a series
- 17.95 “Old series,” “new series,” and such
- Facts of Publication
- 17.96 Place, publisher, and date
- 17.97 Place and date only
- 17.98 Date only
- 17.99 Place: city
- 17.100 When to specify state, province, or country
- 17.101 Foreign city names
- 17.102 “No place”
- 17.103 Publisher’s name
- 17.104 Abbreviations and omissible parts of a publisher’s name
- 17.105 Punctuation and spelling
- 17.106 “And” or ampersand
- 17.107 Changes in publishers’ names
- 17.108 Foreign publishers’ names
- 17.109 Publisher unknown
- 17.110 Parent companies and such
- 17.111 Joint imprint
- 17.112 Special imprint
- 17.113 Copublication
- 17.114 Distributed books
- 17.115 Publication date: general
- 17.116 New impressions and renewal of copyright
- 17.117 Two dates
- 17.118 Multivolume works published over several years
- 17.119 “No date”
- 17.120 No ascertainable information
- 17.121 “Forthcoming”
- 17.122 Use of “n.d.” for forthcoming works
- Reprint Editions and Modern Editions
- 17.123 Citing in notes and bibliographies
- 17.124 Citing in the author-date system
- 17.125 Author-date system: original date
- 17.126 Author-date system: later date
- 17.127 Author-date system: both dates
- Page, Volume, and Other Locating Information
- 17.128 General
- 17.129 Arabic versus roman numerals
- 17.130 Ranges, or inclusive numbers
- 17.131 Using or avoiding “ff.” and “passim”
- 17.132 Abbreviations
- 17.133 When to omit “p.” and “pp.”
- 17.134 When to omit “vol.”
- 17.135 Page and chapter numbers
- 17.136 Signatures
- 17.137 Folios
- 17.138 Lines
- 17.139 Citing notes: form 1
- 17.140 Citing notes: form 2
- 17.141 Citing illustrations and tables
- Electronic Books
- Periodicals
- 17.148 Definition
- 17.149 Information to be included
- 17.150 Journals versus magazines
- 17.151 Punctuation
- 17.152 Page numbers
- 17.153 Flexibility and consistency
- Journals
- 17.154 Author’s name
- 17.155 Many authors
- 17.156 Article title
- 17.157 Italics and quotation marks within article titles
- 17.158 Question marks or exclamation points
- 17.159 Journal title
- 17.160 Standard abbreviations
- 17.161 Issue information: elements required
- 17.162 Volume
- 17.163 Issue
- 17.164 Date
- 17.165 No volume number
- 17.166 Year as volume number
- 17.167 Forthcoming works
- 17.168 Page references
- 17.169 Space versus no space after a colon
- 17.170 Special issues
- 17.171 Supplements
- 17.172 Articles published in installments
- 17.173 Article appearing in two publications
- 17.174 Place where journal is published
- 17.175 Translated or edited article
- 17.176 Foreign-language articles and journals
- 17.177 Translated article titles
- 17.178 Volume series
- 17.179 Short titles
- Electronic Journals
- Magazines
- Online Magazines
- Newspapers
- 17.188 Elements of the citation
- 17.189 Headlines
- 17.190 Regular columns
- 17.191 Citing in text
- 17.192 Unsigned articles
- 17.193 Letters to the editor
- 17.194 Weekend supplements, magazines, and the like
- 17.195 Names of newspapers
- 17.196 Names of foreign newspapers
- 17.197 News services
- 17.198 Online newspapers, news services, and other news sites
- Citing Reviews
- Interviews and Personal Communications
- Formal Interviews
- 17.205 Unpublished interviews
- 17.206 Unattributed interviews
- 17.207 Published or broadcast interviews
- Personal Communications
- Unpublished and Informally Published Material
- 17.210 Use of parentheses in notes
- 17.211 “Unpublished” material online
- 17.212 Other material
- 17.213 Title
- 17.214 Theses and dissertations
- 17.215 Lectures, papers presented at meetings, and the like
- 17.216 Poster papers
- 17.217 Working papers and other unpublished works
- 17.218 Preprints
- 17.219 Patents
- 17.220 Private contracts, wills, and such
- 17.221 Other materials
- Manuscript Collections
- 17.222 General
- 17.223 Note forms versus bibliographic entries
- 17.224 Specific versus generic titles
- 17.225 Dates
- 17.226 Folios, page numbers, and such
- 17.227 Papers and manuscripts
- 17.228 Depositories
- 17.229 Letters and the like
- 17.230 Examples of note forms
- 17.231 Examples of bibliographic entries
- 17.232 Letters and the like in private collections
- 17.233 Author-date style
- Informally Published Electronic Material
- Special Types of References
- 17.238 Reference works
- 17.239 Reference works online
- 17.240 Exhibition catalogs
- 17.241 Pamphlets, reports, and the like
- 17.242 Microform editions
- 17.243 Loose-leaf services
- 17.244 News release
- 17.245 Abstract
- Scriptural References
- Classical Greek and Latin References
- 17.250 Where to cite
- 17.251 Identifying numbers
- 17.252 Abbreviations
- 17.253 Punctuation
- 17.254 Editions
- 17.255 Titles
- 17.256 Superscripts
- 17.257 Collections of inscriptions
- 17.258 Fragments
- 17.259 Modern editions of the classics
- 17.260 Medieval references
- Classic English Poems and Plays
- Musical Scores
- Audiovisual Materials
- Sound Recordings
- Online Multimedia
- CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs
- Slides, Filmstrips, and Videos
- Citations Taken from Secondary Sources
- Legal Citations
- 17.275 Stylebooks
- 17.276 Note form
- 17.277 Typefaces
- 17.278 Abbreviations
- 17.279 Full citations
- 17.280 Books and treatises
- 17.281 Chapters in edited books
- 17.282 Articles in periodicals
- 17.283 Cases or court decisions: basic elements
- 17.284 U.S. Supreme Court decisions
- 17.285 Lower federal courts
- 17.286 State- and local-court decisions
- 17.287 Subsequent citations
- 17.288 Constitutions
- 17.289 Legal citations in nonlegal works
- Public Documents
- 17.290 Stylebooks
- 17.291 Form of documentation
- 17.292 Abbreviation style
- 17.293 Elements required
- 17.294 Discretion
- United States
- 17.295 Government Printing Office
- 17.296 Catalog
- 17.297 Congressional publications
- 17.298 Inclusion of “U.S. Congress” and such
- 17.299 The 3-em dash
- 17.300 Congress and sessions
- 17.301 Congressional journals
- 17.302 Congressional Record
- 17.303 Identity of a speaker
- 17.304 Debates
- 17.305 Journals of the Continental Congress
- 17.306 Reports and documents
- 17.307 Hearings
- 17.308 Committee Prints
- 17.309 Bills and resolutions
- 17.310 Laws and statutes
- 17.311 Earlier statutes
- 17.312 State laws and municipal ordinances
- 17.313 American State Papers
- 17.314 Other collections
- 17.315 Presidential documents
- 17.316 Compilations of presidential papers
- 17.317 Executive department documents
- 17.318 Series numbers
- 17.319 Census Bureau
- 17.320 Government commission publications
- 17.321 Constitutions
- 17.322 Treaties
- 17.323 State and local governments
- 17.324 Unpublished government documents
- Canada
- 17.325 Reference works
- 17.326 Parliament, legislatures, and executive departments
- 17.327 Date form and abbreviations
- 17.328 Inclusion of “Canada”
- 17.329 Debates
- 17.330 Bills
- 17.331 Statutes
- 17.332 Regulations
- 17.333 Gazettes
- 17.334 Citing
- 17.335 Unpublished Canadian government documents
- United Kingdom
- 17.336 Reference works
- 17.337 First element in citations
- 17.338 Government publisher
- 17.339 Date and number form
- 17.340 Parliamentary publications
- 17.341 Publication of parliamentary debates
- 17.342 Citing debates
- 17.343 Citing debates, British style
- 17.344 Parliamentary bills, reports, and papers
- 17.345 Command papers
- 17.346 Statutes
- 17.347 Compilations of statutes
- 17.348 Foreign and state papers
- 17.349 Reports in pamphlet form
- 17.350 Other published records
- 17.351 Calendars
- 17.352 Unpublished UK government documents
- 17.353 Frequently cited collections
- 17.354 Examples
- International Bodies
- Public Documents Online
- Databases