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*Evidence Style is more cautious in the use of abbreviations. Because historical researchers use records across wide time frames;in which place-name abbreviations change, because family historians use records for many countries whose proper abbreviations may not be widely known, and 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> In general, Evidence Style spells out the names of states and references to political jurisdictions ("county," "parish," etc.) in the first citation to a source, but allows abbreviations in shortened subsequent citations to the same source.<ref>See "Cooperstown, New York" on p. 98 of ''Evidence Explained.''</ref> Both Evidence and Chicago agree that (in Chicago's words), "If the city of publication may be unknown to readers or may be confused with another city of the same name, ... the state, province, or (sometimes) country is added." However, Chicago recommends that the state, province, or country name be abbreviated.<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'' 15th ed., 672.</ref> | *Evidence Style is more cautious in the use of abbreviations. Because historical researchers use records across wide time frames;in which place-name abbreviations change, because family historians use records for many countries whose proper abbreviations may not be widely known, and 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> In general, Evidence Style spells out the names of states and references to political jurisdictions ("county," "parish," etc.) in the first citation to a source, but allows abbreviations in shortened subsequent citations to the same source.<ref>See "Cooperstown, New York" on p. 98 of ''Evidence Explained.''</ref> Both Evidence and Chicago agree that (in Chicago's words), "If the city of publication may be unknown to readers or may be confused with another city of the same name, ... the state, province, or (sometimes) country is added." However, Chicago recommends that the state, province, or country name be abbreviated.<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'' 15th ed., 672.</ref> | ||
*Evidence Style 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 for clarity. | *Evidence Style 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 for clarity. | ||
*Websites are cited analogously to print publications. | |||
== Notes<br> == | == Notes<br> == | ||