Larry Sanger wrote: > It would be very nice if someone with a dog-eared copy of the *Chicago > Manual of Style* (CMS) would go in and render our various notes and > bibliographies according to at least *some* standard citation format. Many > of us seem not to be following any specific format that I'm familiar > with--that's fine, but we seem to be lacking many of those useful > pedants/copyeditor types who pride themselves in precision about these > matters. > > Note that there are some useful pointers here > > http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citation_style > > but they mainly use the citation style preferred by scientific and social > science publications. I think if we use the usual humanities sort of > citation style for humanities and arts articles, that would be fine as well. > But this is for notes (footnotes, citations). > > For Bibliography and Works subpages, it would be nice to add to some > pointers to > > http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Bibliography > http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Works_Subpages > > drawing some main pointers drawn from CMS.
Something which will make maintaining this easier would be to modify the Cite templates to use CMS style. I personally don't know any particular standard form for citations, but I can stuff the information I know into a citation template and let that make a properly-formatted citation for me. The templates are linked off http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citation_templates Anthony Argyriou _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
