Chicago Manual of Style
Mar. 26th, 2010 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielDoes anyone have experiencing organising references using the Chicago Manual of Style? I am currently on something of a crash course and cannot get access to the Manual until tomorrow. I am editing a volume of collected essays.
For various reasons, I've decided to use the notes-bibliography variant. I've found excellent online guides which show me how to format text in both notes and bibliography. However, I have a few remaining questions, one of which is conceptual and therefore fairly critical!
As I say, I should be able to check the latter very easily in the library tomorrow, but it would be really helpful if anyone with experience of this style can indicate whether I'm making a serious blunder in the first question in particular. I much prefer to understand first principle rather than follow prescribed sets of rules, and am less likely to make errors that way. To anyone who can help: many thanks.
For various reasons, I've decided to use the notes-bibliography variant. I've found excellent online guides which show me how to format text in both notes and bibliography. However, I have a few remaining questions, one of which is conceptual and therefore fairly critical!
- Am I right in my understanding that bibliographies can be split according to type of source material? Is there a specific hierarchy, or can I determine one that suits my purposes? For example, I have seen this hierarchy used:
Books | Articles | Media | Web/Online | Government Information | Unpublished
This suits my purposes very well... except that some of the essays use a small number of sources, all of which are books and articles. As a sub-question, then, could I merge those in the case of those essays for the purposes of clarity, or would that violate a consistency rule? - I've found two different formats for referencing television programmes, here (opens to PDF) and here (scroll down). Anyone know if one is preferred, or can I choose the one which best suits the project (the second one)?
- Podcasts/webisodes. I'm guessing these would go under 'Media' rather than 'Web/Online'. Anyone know if there's an approved form?
As I say, I should be able to check the latter very easily in the library tomorrow, but it would be really helpful if anyone with experience of this style can indicate whether I'm making a serious blunder in the first question in particular. I much prefer to understand first principle rather than follow prescribed sets of rules, and am less likely to make errors that way. To anyone who can help: many thanks.
