13: Source Citations: Overview
- The purpose of source citations
- Chicago-style source citations
- Other systems of source citation
- Flexibility and consistency
- Mentioning versus citing
- Uniform resource locators (URLs)
- Digital object identifiers (DOIs)
- Permalinks and the like
- Editing long URLs
- Library and other bibliographic databases
- Link-shortening services
- URLs in relation to surrounding text
- Citation management tools
- Citing the right version
- Access dates
- “Last modified” and other revision dates
- Preserving a permanent record
- Notes and bibliography—an overview
- Abbreviations in notes versus bibliographies
- Page numbers and other locators
- Notes and bibliography—introduction to examples and variations
- Book with single author or editor
- Book with multiple authors or editors
- Book with author plus editor or translator
- Chapter in an edited book
- Journal article
- Numbers in text versus numbers in notes
- Sequencing of note numbers and symbols
- Placement of note number
- Note numbers with chapter and article titles and subheads
- Multiple citations and multiple note references
- When to use shortened citations
- Basic structure of the short form
- Cross-reference to full citation
- Short form for authors’ names
- Short form for titles of works
- Shortened citations versus “ibid.”
- “Idem”
- “Op. cit.” and “loc. cit.”
- Citations plus commentary in a note
- Quotation within a note
- Substantive notes
- Paragraphing within long notes
- Footnotes that break across pages in a printed work
- “See” and “cf.”
- Footnotes and endnotes—an overview
- Footnotes—pros and cons
- Endnotes—pros and cons
- Endnote placement
- Running heads for endnotes
- Special considerations for endnotes
- Endnotes plus footnotes
- Footnotes plus author-date citations
- Editor’s or translator’s notes plus author’s notes
- Unnumbered notes
- Notes keyed to line numbers
- Notes keyed to page numbers
- Source notes for previously published material
- Biographical notes and acknowledgments
- Avoiding overlong notes
- Several citations in one note
- Citing sources in the text rather than in the notes
- Abbreviations for frequently cited works
- List of abbreviations
- Relationship of bibliographies to notes
- Format and placement of bibliography
- Dividing a bibliography into sections
- Kinds of bibliographies
- Alphabetical order for bibliography entries
- Alphabetical order for titles by the same author
- Arrangement of bibliography entries with more than one author
- The 3-em dash—reasons to avoid
- Using the 3-em dash for repeated names in a bibliography
- Author’s name—overview and related discussions
- Form of author’s name
- Authors preferring initials
- One author
- Two or more authors (or editors)
- Two or more authors (or editors) with same family name
- Author’s name in title
- No listed author (anonymous works)
- Pseudonyms
- Cross-references for pseudonyms
- Alternative real names
- Authors known by a given name
- Organization as author
- Additional discussion of titles
- Italics versus quotation marks for titles of cited works
- Capitalization of titles of cited works
- Some permissible changes to titles of cited works
- Subtitles in cited works and the use of the colon
- Two subtitles in a cited work
- Use of “or” with double titles
- “And other stories” and such
- Dates in titles of cited works
- Quoted titles and other terms within cited titles of works
- Italicized titles and other terms within cited titles of works
- Question marks or exclamation points in titles of cited works
- Older titles and very long titles
- Non-English titles of cited works
- Translated titles of cited works
- The author-date system—overview
- Abbreviations in author-date citations
- Page numbers in author-date citations
- Author-date references—introduction to examples and variations
- Author-date—book with single author or editor
- Author-date—book with multiple authors
- Author-date—book with author plus editor or translator
- Author-date—chapter in an edited book
- Author-date—journal article
- Function and placement of author-date reference lists
- Alphabetical arrangement of reference list entries
- The 3-em dash for repeated names in a reference list
- Reference list entries with same author(s), same year
- Agreement of author-date text citations and reference list entries
- Author-date text citations—basic form
- Page numbers and other locators in author-date text citations
- Additional material in author-date text citations
- Author-date citations in relation to surrounding text
- Author-date text citations in relation to direct quotations
- Consecutive author-date citations to the same source
- Syntactic considerations with author-date text citations
- Author-date text citations of works with more than two authors
- Multiple author-date text references
- Author-date text citations with title rather than author
- Author-date text citations with pseudonyms
- Author-date text citations with organization as author
- Author-date system with notes