Thomas Jones DVD$ Thomas Jones CD$ EasyBib. Citefast. Son of Citation Machine. BibMe. CitationCreation. Citation Builder. Citable Citations. Citing Electronic Information in History Papers. By Maurice Crouse Department of History, The University of Memphis <mcrouse@memphis.edu> 8 May 2013 Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 by Maurice Crouse. You may freely reproduce this document, provided that you reproduce it in its entirety and without any modification.
This document is available in a Slovenian translation by Victor Zdrawlica at Index New information media always present challenges to bibliographers, who must either adapt existing forms of documentation or devise new ones to maintain bibliographic control. In 2003 the University of Chicago in the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style finally gave quite full treatment of citations of electronic information (§§ 16.18, 16.40, 17.4-15, 17.142-147, 17.180-181, 17.187, 17.198, 17.208, 17.211, 17.234-237, 17.239, 17.270-271, 17.273, 17.356, and 17.357-359).
U.S. U.S. APA Style. RefWorks. Zotero. NoodleTools. Simple Citations. Why was Simple Citations created? Simple Citations was created because none of the software applications for maintaining family history data has ever incorporated (or developed) a standardized, simple-to-use, method to cite genealogical data in a consistent manner.
Indeed, citing sources has always been a nightmare. Part of the reason for this is that the first software application to receive widespread use was Personal Ancestral File (PAF) which advocated the use of GEnealogical Data COMmunication (GEDCOM) as means to share genealogical data between computer programs. Unfortunately, GEDCOM became the de facto standard despite the fact that it was so poorly designed. Another problem is that traditional citation systems (i.e., APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, etc.) are all very usable for traditional sources (books, magazines, journals, etc.) but were never intended for use with genealogical materials.
How much does it cost? Absolutely nothing. What other citation approaches are there? Tony Proctor: Cite Seeing. It’s about time that I presented my STEMMA® approach to sources and citations[1]. Although the initial design approach wasn’t unusual, it has since evolved by trying to match all the real, hand-generated citations in my own research reports, and without having to restrict things to some “standard” list of source-types, or some formatted samples published on paper or online. The concept of a citation depends somewhat on the context. Some view it as the abstract act of citing a source of information or some scholarly work — ignoring contexts such as military awards and traffic citations. In STEMMA, a Citation entity (capitalisation deliberate for clarity) is a generalised representation of information location, sources, and repositories. A citation has a number of purposes: intellectual honesty (not claiming prior work as your own), to allow your sources to be independently assessed by the reader, and to allow the strength of your information sources to be assessed.
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