Chicago Style Manual

Saturday, April 18, 2009 Posted by Janiece at 12:00 PM
Parenthetical citation using the Chicago Style Manual sucks big hairy asses. And likes it.

That is all.
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8 comments:

kimby said...

I feel your pain. MLA. Chicago, APA, all of them......YUCK!

April 18, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Eric said...

I always preferred it back in my paper-writing days.

::ducks::

April 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Random Michelle K said...

If you are going to be writing a lot of papers (this goes for Kim as well) I *strongly* recommend that you invest in a copy of Endnote.

Not only do you use it to organize your references (you can automatically search on-line database like pubmed using it) it also automatically builds and formats your bibliography as you write your paper. And if you need to change styles, Endnote changes everything with a simple command.

Everyone who has to write papers (requiring bibliographies) should own a coy or Endnote. Yes Reference Manger does something similar, but Endnote is far more intuitive and user friendly.

April 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Janiece said...

Michelle, I'll look into it. I don't usually mind doing my citations, but today it was getting on my damn nerves.

April 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Random Michelle K said...

Janiece, I teach Endnote by request, and usually a dept will send their students to take the class, and I'd say about halfway in one or more people *gasp* and go OH MY GOD! WHY DIDN'T I HAVE THIS EARLIER?!!!!

It will save you oodles of time. Trust me. ;)

April 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Steve Buchheit said...

Instead what you need to do is make up more and cite less. That'll solve the problem. Or put "(ibid)" in a macro and use only one source. Oh, and don't forget to adjust the margins larger so it looks like your paper is longer.

April 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Eric said...

It doesn't quite work out when you try to make more stuff up, Steve, because you still have to make up citations.

:-P



(On a related tangent: the worst thing the late Michael Crichton ever did wasn't becoming a far-right, anthropogenic-global-warming-denying 'tard. The worst thing Mr. Crichton ever did was to remove the bibliography entry from later editions of Eaters Of The Dead, including his citation for the dread Necronomicon of Abdul Azhared; when it vanished was around the time he started taking himself far too seriously. Anyway, the right-wing flakiness I tended to forgive. The loss of his sense of humor, not so much.)

April 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Janiece said...

I could just use citations of material that I write myself.That seems to work for some people.

Hee.

April 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM

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