On Thu, Dec 06, 2001, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> it's a reader's nightmare (e.g., ibid for three or four pages
> leaves you digging for the first reference). It's inline
> citations that break the flow of text.
I cannot agree more. Now finished reading of a book ``Frontiers
of Legal Theory''by Richard Posner (published by Harvard
University Press! -- I wonder, what do these folks in publishing
houses do!) and I can confess, that reading footnote like this
31. Holmes, note 13 above, at 207.
leads me, a born-again Christian, to deep contemplations, whether
there is really no justification for a murder.
> > Endnotes (or better yet, parenthetical references) are the
> > preferred method for citations. I myself am trying to figure
> > out how to do this.
PLEASE! Do not do endnotes for citations!!!
If there is anything worse than searching for note 13 (on page
198) from current page 204, it is to browse through endless sea
of endnotes somewhere between pages 500 and 625 just to find
fu*ing note saying something very meaningless. I usually put the
book aside or (if I have to read it) just ignore _any_ endnote.
IMHO, endnotes are good only for substantial disgression from the
main text (aka Appendices), and it is still questionable, whether
just another new chapter (paragraph) would not do better.
Could you put parenthetical quotations in footnotes?
31. Holmes (1881), p. 207.
You will have at least good bibliography in the end (one other
thing I just cannot understand -- how is it possible, that HUP
publishes presumably theoretical book w/o bibliography?).
Good luck with writing!
Matej Cepl
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