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Citations a-Twitter
The dizzying speed at which technology has been evolving often leaves those of us entrenched in the world of crediting sources and editing reference lists running to keep up. We have standard citation...
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Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for Electronic References
Electronic references are widely used in scientific publications. Most people are familiar with the URL (uniform resource locator), the address for a page on the Internet. A serious problem with URLs...
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Citing Electronic Editions: or, Getting on the Same Page
Copyediting.com recently posted a tip on how to cite a book read on a Kindle or other similar e-reader,1 noting that with the lack of page numbers in such electronic editions this was a “peculiarity”...
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Questions From Users of the Manual
Q: Does your style require parenthetical page numbers after the superscript citation of the reference number on all references or just direct quotations? A: The manual does not “require” page numbers...
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Questions From Users of the Manual
Q: How can a user of your online manual tell if use of a particular word (such as namely) is discouraged? A: The first place to look might be chapter 11, Correct and Preferred Usage. But the word you...
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URLs Gone Bad: Fixing Broken Links
Link rot is a term that describes the tendency of URLs to fail over time because the page has been deleted or moved. Because of the lag between writing and publication, link rot can be a problem even...
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Questions From Users of the Manual
Q: I am writing a manuscript in which I want to include the dates that a list of products were first marketed. The database from which I got the information is a subscriber-only database. This seems to...
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Questions From Users of the Manual
Q: Section 3.12.5 describes how to cite books with editors and translators but there is no example showing how to cite a book with both an editor and an editor in chief. Should only the editor in chief...
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