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 Citation style guides can help you capture all the information about a source that is necessary for others to evaluate the quality of the source, to find your source, and sometimes to find the source upon which your source was derived. In practice, style guides are not necessary when using the latest genealogy software because the software prompts you to enter source information into forms. You only need to fill in the appropriate boxes and the program formats citations appropriately. Style guides are only necessary when using software that doesn't have forms for the many different types of sources used by genealogists.<br>
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-| 1.&nbsp; Per Clemensson and Kjell Andersson, ''Your Swedish Roots: A Step by Step Handbook'' (Provo, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 2004), 115.
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-| Helen F. M. Leary, editor, ''North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History'', 2d ed. (Raleigh:<ref name="Mills806" /> North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996), 3-16.
+| &nbsp;3.&nbsp; Helen F. M. Leary, editor, ''North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History'', 2d ed. (Raleigh:<ref name="Mills806" /> North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996), 3-16.
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-| Leary, ''North Carolina Research'', 3-16.
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 == FamilySearch Sources  ==
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 **For records consulted on FHL microfilm, in some cases the repository information can be specified in the source list entry and excluded from reference notes.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 56.</ref>
 **When an archival set of records has both a number and a name, only the first need contain both.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 118.</ref>
 **When publishing a genealogy article, ''ibid.'' may be used when a citation refers to the same source as the previous citation.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 205, 273.</ref>
 **When publishing a genealogy article, a citation may omit elements already identified in the text.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 259.</ref>
 **Do not respecify ''baptisms'' in the locator information of a citation when it is clear from the title.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 324.</ref>
 **Do not specify the record type when it is part of the title.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 453, 495, 556.</ref>
 **When a location is added to the beginning of a source list entry to force desired alphabetizing, it need not be repeated in its normal position in the citation.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 462.</ref> In essence, the citation element has been ''moved.''
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 *Information that is common knowledge can sometimes be excluded from a citation.
 **In some cases, world-famous, unambiguous cities may be specified without province or U.S. state name.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 221-2, 369.</ref>
-*When citing a record the degrades over time, then one should specify when the record was seen. For example, grave markers degrade over time, so the citation should include the date the marker was read.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained'', 214.</ref>
+*When citing a record that degrades over time, then one should specify when the record was seen. For example, grave markers degrade over time, so the citation should include the date the marker was read.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained'', 214.</ref>
 = Differences from Chicago Manual of Style  =
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 *Mills italicizes series titles if it "is considered a formal title for [the] set of materials."<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 716.</ref> If "the name of the series is not self explanatory," the title is not italicized.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 718,721-2.</ref> CMS never italicizes a series title.<ref>''CMS'' 15th ed., 669.</ref>
 *"''Evidence ''Style identifies [periodical] issues by their dates rather than issue numbers, because unrecognized typing errors are more common with numbers than with words."<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 794.</ref> CMS allows either, but recognizes that "although not all these elements may be required to locate an article, furnishing them all provides a hedge against possible error in one or another of them."<ref>''CMS'' 15th ed., 690.</ref><br>
-*"Because abbreviations rarely save a significant amount of space, the thoughtful writer avoids all but the truly obvious ones."<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' p. 71.</ref> This includes state names when included in the place of publication.<ref>See "Cooperstown, New York" on p. 98 of ''Evidence Explained.''</ref> By contrast, CMS specifies, "If the city of publication may be unknown to readers or may be confused with another city of the same name, the abbreviation of the state, province, or (sometimes) country is added."<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'' 15th ed., 672.</ref><br>
+*"Because abbreviations rarely save a significant amount of space, the thoughtful writer avoids all but the truly obvious ones."<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 71.</ref> This includes state names when included in the place of publication.<ref>See "Cooperstown, New York" on p. 98 of ''Evidence Explained.''</ref> By contrast, CMS specifies, "If the city of publication may be unknown to readers or may be confused with another city of the same name, the abbreviation of the state, province, or (sometimes) country is added."<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'' 15th ed., 672.</ref><br>
-*Mills allows an optional space after the colon separating volume and page numbers.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' p. 77.</ref> CMS, on the other hand, specifies that no space be present. "But when parenthetical information intervenes,"<ref>''CMS'' 15th ed., 692.</ref> such as "12 (Winter): 345" then a space after the colon is required.
+*Mills allows an optional space after the colon separating volume and page numbers.<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained,'' 77.</ref> CMS, on the other hand, specifies that no space be present. "But when parenthetical information intervenes,"<ref>''CMS'' 15th ed., 692.</ref> such as "12 (Winter): 345" then a space after the colon is required.
 = Notes<br>  =
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