Joseph Reagle wrote >> But did you see bwiernik's note? > > To use the medium tag instead? That's fine for APA, but other CSLs (e.g., > chicago-fullnote-bibliography-16th-edition.csl and > chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl) still render the medium field, so I am > still getting APA-specific gunk in my Chicago notes. Did I misunderstand?
To be clear, that was comment was mostly pointing out to get proper APA-style format labels in brackets with apa.csl, you should use medium, not genre. It wasn't necessarily intended as a solution to the broader problem (though I don't recall if the Chicago CSL styles at the time included medium or not). ------- Sebastian's recommendation to test for medium and then to supply a localized fallback term based on item type has worked well in APA and a few other styles for the last few years. Adopting this generally would require locale terms for each item type--I believe that addition is widely agreed to at this point. It would also be good to clarify the use of genre and medium in styles and with various client programs. Generally, both citation styles and client programs use genre mostly to specify subtypes within an item type (most commonly type of thesis, report, or manuscript), though the specification also gives examples of using it for film or book genres (this strikes me as very odd mixing of information within a variable). Mendeley uses genre in this way for books, Zotero uses it this way for films and computer programs (programming language). Citation styles rarely use medium and always as a descriptor for the format or medium of the item. Medium seems most appropriate for descriptions like "E-book", "Video recording", "Forum post", "Computer program and accompanying manual", etc. Zotero uses medium for physical descriptions/formats of graphic, song, motion_picture, broadcast, and interview, as well as for the operating system of computer programs. Mendeley doesn't use medium at all. In retrospect, it seems like medium might have been a better choice to use for all format and subtype information (i.e., things like type of thesis, report, forum post, etc.), rather than using genre for such information for some item types (report, post, thesis, etc.) and medium for others (graphic, song, etc.), while also using genre to provide information about item topic (topical genre for book, song, motion_picture, etc., but also potentially things like kind of computer program [reference management, statistical analysis, etc.] or purpose of interview or letter). In some styles such as APA, because genre and medium are sometimes used inconsistently across item types (sometimes they are interchangeable in how the variables are interpreted, sometimes not), conditional logic is needed to test for genre and/or medium in various places to avoid double-printing information. Moving forward, it seems like using medium for these sorts of terms creates the least friction. If anything can be done to make usage of genre/medium more consistent in client programs, that would be ideal, but would be difficult. -- Sent from: http://xbiblio-devel.2463403.n2.nabble.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
