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== Turabian? Shown Mills? Chigago? Oh my! == | == Turabian? Shown Mills? Chigago? Oh my! == | ||
I'm preparing to launch WikiProject:Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives but I don't know which format to use for the book references. APA? MLA? Chicago? Shown Mills? Turabian? Any ideas? It would be nice to come to a consensus before adding these 1300 references so the community won't have to come back and change their citation format later. | I'm preparing to launch [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|WikiProject:Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives]] but I don't know which format to use for the book references. APA? MLA? Chicago? Shown Mills? Turabian? Any ideas? It would be nice to come to a consensus before adding these 1300 references so the community won't have to come back and change their citation format later. | ||
We may need to cite sources differently depending on whether we're mentioning a great record source within the body of an article or creating a footnote. | We may need to cite sources differently depending on whether we're mentioning a great record source within the body of an article or creating a footnote. | ||
To see how Wikipedia handles this, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources Wikipedia:Citing sources]. | To see how Wikipedia handles this, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources Wikipedia:Citing sources]. | ||
[[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] 17:03, 29 April 2009 (UTC) | [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] 17:03, 29 April 2009 (UTC) | ||