When I did my PhD I submitted using a citation method which I think was
called Chicago or was a variant of this.
Essentially this did not involve using any footnotes but simply gave
authors name, year of publication and page number in the appropriate
sections of the text. At the end of each chapter there was a reference
list of all the publications cited in the chapter . You could then
easily track the full refernce from the author and date references in
the text. So citing my PhD for example would be done by (Griffith 2013
p347).
In the Reference section at the end of the chapter there would be
Griffith, David. 2013. Blind Justice....and so on.Only on very very
rare occasions did I use footnotes as personally I find it stylistically
clumsy. If you cannot refer to something logically and pertinently in
the text then I cannot see why anybody should resort to using a footnote
to cover up this clumsiness.
I tried out various bespoke notes applications and found them
inaccessible and/or very difficult to use.
In the end I decided it was better to concentrate on writing a good PhD
rather than getting hung up on citation systems. Nobody ever commented
adversely on my citation style.
I know different journals require differenct styles but in my area of
Law/Social Policy they all seem to allow something like this. The
advantage of this system of course is that it is accessible on all word
processing platforms capable of being used by a Screenreader.
David Griffith
01/11/2015 21:42, Sarah Amelia Sackville McLauchlan wrote:
Hi all!
If any of you out there are also academics, do you know of any good
citation-management software that works with Voice-Over? I’ve been trying
Zotero, but it’s a complete nightmare! And I didn’t find Refworks all that
accessible either (though that was with a different screen-reader before I
switched to Mac). Besides, it’s expensive I gather, and tied to your
university. Now, expensive I don’t necessarily mind, if I can be reasonably
sure it’s going to actually work before I spend the money. But, if possible,
I’d like something I can use whether I’m formally affiliated with a university
or not, because, once I finish my doctorate, I may not always be. But I’ll
still want to do academic work, submitting to conferences and journals and the
like, and I’ll still want to publish! Oh! And it also needs to be something
that will allow me to create citations in a variety of styles, not just in one.
My work is interdisciplinary, so I sometimes have to use MLA and at other
times APA, for example, depending on which course, conference or journal I’m
writing for. Anyway, if any of you know of a citation-management software
that’s VO compatible that’d work for that stuff, it’d be a real life-saver! So
thanks!
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