Q. I found a nice comment written in a book by the last owner. Have no idea who that was, but the words are good. How do I cite this?
Q. I am teaching my students CMOS notes and bibliography type for all of their academic papers. When using footnotes on a paper the student did the full bibliographic citation on page 1. Then on page 2 there was a reference to the same source. Is it correct to allow the student to simply use author-date for that subsequent citation? Or is it more correct for the student to repeat the full bibliographic citation?
Q. I am using the author-date system for a book. I need to cite a response from a survey that was done after a workshop. The survey results were never published and the responses are anonymous.
Q. I am writing a scholarly book and the publisher has explicitly indicated that it does not want numerous endnotes, long endnotes, discursive endnotes, or cross-citations. In providing a gloss of various texts in the scholarly literature in my introduction, I have provided the complete author’s name, the title, and date of the book within the running text. To add a note would be redundant. Is this an acceptable way to satisfy both the publisher and the scholarly readers?
Q. I am copyediting a scholarly text in which there are many excerpts from Italian correspondence, each followed by the author’s translation in parentheses. She has placed the note number (for the source) after the translation, rather than after the original, and has made it clear in an early note that all translations are hers unless stated. Is the note number placement correct? My inclination would be to put the number after the original text.
Q. How do I cite in text two works in the same year by authors with the same surname? I have (MacDonald 1999) for both K. A. MacDonald and R. H. MacDonald, each of whom wrote an article that year. It seems awkward to refer to them as (e.g.) “R. MacDonald” when I’ve given none of the other authors a first initial.
Q. How do I cite a website page that is not available anymore? I must cite a YouTube video that is an essential part of my research, but the link is now extinct. Thank you!
Q. Can it be considered acceptable to use endnotes for some of the chapters of an edited volume (conference proceedings) and footnotes for others? After selecting a great design for layout where notes are placed in a narrow side column, we laid out about a quarter of the text and then discovered that some chapters have such extensive notes that they need to be made into chapter endnotes. We don’t want to change the overall design for a number of reasons. What we’d like to do is retain the side notes in the chapters for which they work, and use chapter endnotes in the chapters where side notes don’t work. Is it more important to maintain consistency in this situation than to preserve our design?
Q. How would you recommend citing a note which occurs in the front matter of a book on a page numbered with roman numerals? Following the advice in CMOS, my troublesome page reference in the footnote would be xviiin1. Looks odd, no? And a bit hard to interpret for any but the editorial in-crowd?
Q. I have quotations that I have heard and known forever it seems. I have found the sources of a few, but I do not know how to cite them in my manuscript. Some I found online. Would I cite them as a footnote? What format would I use?