[Sca-librarians] TI Bibliography Format

[John Sandstrom]

Greetings to the list--

Personally, I don't have any problem with the format the new Editor wants to
use.  All the information I need to find the book/article/resource is there.


I think that the issue will come with the authors having already used a
format and not being willing to go back and change how they did their
bibliography for publication.  At least that was my experience as editor.

I also think that the limits to size/length of bibliographies and end notes
are unfortunate and could (note I said COULD) have the effect of limiting
the "level" of article that is submitted for publication.  My experience was
that people would send you articles and most of them were not very willing
to make rewrites or reformatting for publication.  Most of the time, I ended
up changing them myself during the editing process.

Omar
Past Editor, TI

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Greetings

Mistress Doria Tecla, the new Editor of Tournaments Illuminated, asked 
if I would please
send the following new bibliography format out to this group
for a period of comments.

Please send comments if you have any to me and I will gather them
up and send them along to her in one e-mail. Apparently the amount of
e-mail is huge at the moment and this way we can make sure she sees our 
comments in one mailing.

I will give everyone until June 1st and then send along whatever I have 
been sent.

It should be noted that she will accept formatting done through 
EasyBib.com by the way
provided that the underlining switches to italics.

And we should note that there's going to be a 120 word max now
on bibliographies. This has to be added to the bibliography format page.

"The bibliography/sources/endnotes is/are limited to 120 words. In order 
to allow interested members to get the complete information, authors are 
asked to supply the additional information to the Corporate offices to 
keep on file for requests and (if available) list their e-mail address 
as a contact."

I personally think this means that sources should be divided into major 
sources and then further reading sources that are available through the 
publications office or from the author via e-mail?

What do you think?

As librarians, if someone brings a TI article and wants the source 
material, what do we need to see to put that book or article in that
patron's hands?

By the way MS Word counts a website as one word no matter how long or 
how many words it contains.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu