Spencer E. Harpe wrote:
Does anybody (particularly Jean or Gary or Michelle) have any
suggestions on how to cite the texts by OOoAuthors? I think my problem
is that I'm trying to force something relatively "nontraditional" into a
more "traditional" format, but I'm not in a position to try to buck the
system right now. I'm forced with citing book chapters in the following
format...
Authors: Chapter Title. In: Book Title, edition. Place of Publication:
Name of Publisher, Year, pages.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
The printed books would be easier to fit into the required
format, since they have a place and name of publisher and they
are more "static" than the PDFs. Of course that doesn't help with
chapters of the Calc Guide.
Following a style similar to that used for the many reference
works without a named author (for example, most dictionaries and
the Chicago Manual of Style), I would suggest as an example:
Introduction to Styles. In: OpenOffice.org 2.x Writer Guide, 3rd
edition. Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia: Friends of
OpenDocument, Inc, 2007, pp xx-yy.
If you *must* include author(s) names, I'd use "OOoAuthors Team"
for the author, because that's what I've put on the Lulu pages
for the books (though not in the books themselves). Thus:
OOoAuthors Team: Introduction to Styles. In: OpenOffice.org 2.x
Writer Guide, 3rd edition. Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia:
Friends of OpenDocument, Inc, 2007, pp xx-yy.
Aside: Most of the chapters have many people listed as authors,
and in most cases there is no way to tell who might have done
most of the work (because the names are listed in alphabetical
order), so it would be inappropriate to give the first one or two
names and "et al." as is done for works with more traditional
authoring arrangements.
For PDFs, I think you'd need to give a website address for the
place of publication, and I guess "OOoAuthors Group" (or just
OOoAuthors) would be the publisher in that case, as that is
what's listed on the Docs web page. For example:
Introduction to Styles. In: OpenOffice.org 2.x Writer Guide, 3rd
edition. http://documentation.openoffice.org/ : OOoAuthors Group,
2007, pp xx-yy.
Hope this helps.
--Jean
