Information Research: Citation Formatting

The term ISU is an initialism

A citation system in academic documentation that makes citations of sources within the text of a paper is the name-year system

In the following bibliographic reference written according to the APA reference format Huffleman, B. S. (2012). Library catalog notes for "badder books": ethics vs. responsibilities. Knowledge Organization, 39(5), 347-355. there's an error in the capitalization of the subtitle of the article, since all titles except periodical titles in APA references are capitalized sentence style, and sentence-style capitalization in APA references means the first word of a title, the first word of a subtitle, and all proper nouns

An example of an acronym is AIDS

The two academic documentation styles that require the making of bibliographic citations within the text of a paper are the MLA and APA

Books, articles, and Web sites are the three basic types of information resources in a library

In academic documentation, the citation system that seems to bypass citations altogether by connecting referred to, paraphrased, or quoted text in a paper directly to a numbered bibliographic reference in a reference list is the citation sequence or citation name system

By looking at these citations In "The Library Bill of Rights, Collection Management, and Reassessing the Value of Bad Books," [...].3 In Arming America, Michael Bellesiles says that "[...]."1 Attention has been called to Bellesiles's Arming America in popular sporting magazines, such as Outdoor Life.5 However, according to Bellesiles in Weighed in an Even Balance, [...].2 Nevertheless, as Homan says, "[...]."4 you can tell that the resource in which they're found uses the citation name system, since the citations are not made in numerical order

A reference format in academic documentation that capitalizes all titles headline style is Chicago/Turabian

In academic documentation, there should be a reciprocal relationship between a bibliographic reference and a citation

An inaccurate map hastily drawn by a resident of New York City to give a tourist directions to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a good example of misinformation

In the Harvard Citation System, you make citations parenthetically in your text by abbreviating the first one or two elements in the references in your reference list

The only citation system that cites sources in footnotes or endnotes is the humanities style

In the following APA reference Hoffman, B. S. (2012). Library catalog notes on and for "bad books": Ethics vs. responsibilities. Knowledge Organization, 39(5), 347-355. there's an error in the type style of the periodical title, because in all four reference formats except the CSE the titles of parts of whole resources are in roman type and the titles of whole resources are in italic type

The two parts of academic documentation are citations and references

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The correctly written reference in the CSE format for Hoffer's Past Imperfect is Hoffer PC. Past imperfect: facts, fictions, fraud--American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin. New York (NY): PublicAffairs; 2004. 287 p.

That a resource on the World Wide Web that you've Googled has its own separate author, title, date, bibliographic references, and way to print it out, etc., is a good indication that the resource is a non-periodical article from a Web site, since it's a discreet resource, separate from the Web page in which it's found

In the following model of an APA reference for an article in a reference book Surname, F. M. (YEAR). The title of the article. In F. M. Surname & F. M. Surname (Eds.), The title of the book: The subtitle of the book (EDITION ed., Vol. VOLUME, pp. PAGE-PAGE). City, ST: Publisher. the title of the part contained in the whole is capitalized sentence style and in roman type, while the title of the whole that contains the part is capitalized sentence style and in italics

The citation system used by medical journals is the citation sequence or citation name system

Although there's no necessary one-to-one correspondence between a citation system and a reference format, by looking at this reference list References 1 Hitchcock L, Homan PA. The Library Bill of Rights, collection management, and reassessing the value of bad books: what's a librarian to do? PNLA Quart. 2005;70(1):9-11. 2 Bellesiles MA. Arming America: the origins of a national gun culture. Brooklyn (NY): Soft Skull Press; 2003. 604 p. 3 Pseudo-scholarship? Outd Life. 2002 May;209(3):25. 4 Bellesiles MA. Weighed in an even balance. Brooklyn (NY): Soft Skull Press; 2003. 59 p. citation sequence system, since the references aren't in alphabetical order

The correctly written reference in the Chicago/Turabian format for Hoffer's Past Imperfect is Hoffer, Peter Charles. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud--American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin. New York: PublicAffairs, 2004.

The only citation system that mixes both annotations and citations together is the humanities style

The four reference formats in academic documentation are Chicago/Turabian, MLA, APA, and CSE

In the following Chicago/Turabian reference Hopleman, Buffallo S. "Library Catalog Notes for very 'Bad Books': Ethics vs. Responsibilities." Knowledge Organization 39, no. 5 (2012): 347-55. there's an error in the type style of the periodical title, because in all four reference formats except the CSE the titles of parts of whole resources are in roman type and the titles of whole resources are in italic type

The list at the end of an article that can contain references for sources of information consulted but neither referred to, paraphrased, nor quoted in the article is a bibliography

The currency of information is least important in the humanities

The most important way in which data and information differ is that data are different in each of the academic disciplines, while information is the same in them

The two reference formats in which the names of authors are abbreviated the most are the CSE and APA

The only citation system in academic documentation that doesn't use a reference list is the humanities style

The type of capitalization in academic documentation that capitalizes only the first words and all proper nouns in titles and subtitles is sentence style capitalization

This model of a reference for a journal article Surname, F. M. (YEAR). The title of the article. The Title of the Periodical, VOLUME(ISSUE), PAGE-PAGE. is written according to the APA format

With the Name or Name-Year Citation System, you work backwards from the references in your reference list to the citations that you make parenthetically in your text

What drives the abbreviation of periodical titles in the Council of Science Editors reference format is that scientists tend to publish in only a few core journals