[Sca-librarians] TI Bibliography Format

[Galefridus Peregrinus]

I'm resending this.  For some reason I have trouble getting my mail 
software to reply to the list -- it replies to the original sender 
instead. 

It's not bad for a one page summary, but I can almost guarantee that 
someone will have to cite something of a type that doesn't appear in the 
list (how about an unpublished paper or talk presented at a 
conference?).  And while the guidelines state how to set up the 
bibliography, they say nothing about how to handle citations in the text 
(footnotes, endnotes, or author/year, e.g.).  I very much prefer the use 
of an established format like Chicago, Turabian, MLA, or APA styles, all 
of which are relatively accessible and can be found in some detail in 
various locations on the Internet.

I will add that Solveig's comments on expecting the corporate offices to 
keep track of authors are right on the money.  Authors should give 
current, accurate contact information that may eventually expire, just 
like the author contact information included with formal scholarly 
papers.  I write and publish scholarly papers with some regularity, and 
have served on more than one occasion as a guest editor for a major 
journal, and can say with some authority that it's easiest all around to 
work with a clear, detailed, and explicit format/style.

-- Galefridus Peregrinus

Johnna Holloway wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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>
> Subject:
> TI Bibliography Format
> From:
> TI Editor <tieditor at sca.org>
> Date:
> Fri, 18 May 2007 08:39:25 -0700
> To:
> Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
>
> To:
> Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
>
>
> Johnna,
>
> Do you think the SCA Librarians would be up for a quick round of hot 
> debate? I have a "TI Bibliography Format" sheet ready, and I would 
> love to get comments on it as long as ONE person would be able to 
> moderate/distill the comments (I have so many e-mails now that I have 
> to sort by sender to find anything!).
>
> If anyone is willing to review it, here are my notes: It is close to 
> MLA with the exception of underlining being converted to italics, and 
> other typographical preferences. I did delete one item on the web-page 
> listing (date reviewed) because TI has such a long life span (and 
> articles can be in the files for years before being published) that 
> the point is moot. The creation date should be enough. Also, if the 
> abbreviations section needs to be amplified, please let me know.
>
> Doria
>
> Attachment: TI Bibliographic Format.pdf
>
>
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