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<span>There are several handbooks that can help you improve the style of your source footnotes. They are '''''guides''''', not commandments from deity. They differ slightly in their suggestions. Please encourage your fellow researchers to cite sources, and avoid being overly fussy about the minutia of their citations. If you see a citation that needs improvement, encourage the author to consider one or more of these guides:</span> | <span>There are several handbooks that can help you improve the style of your source footnotes. They are '''''guides''''', not commandments from deity. They differ slightly in their suggestions. Please encourage your fellow researchers to cite sources, and avoid being overly fussy about the minutia of their citations. If you see a citation that needs improvement, encourage the author to consider one or more of these guides:</span> | ||
<span>University</span><span>of Chicago</span><span>Press. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=500543&disp=The+Chicago+manual+of+style&columns=*,0,0 ''The Chicago Manual of Style''], 14<sup>th</sup> ed. Chicago: | <span>University</span><span>of Chicago</span><span>Press. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=500543&disp=The+Chicago+manual+of+style&columns=*,0,0 ''The Chicago Manual of Style''], 14<sup>th</sup> ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.</span> | ||
<span>Mills, Elizabeth Shown. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1407003&disp=Evidence+explained&columns=*,0,0 ''Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace'']. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2007.</span> | <span>Mills, Elizabeth Shown. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1407003&disp=Evidence+explained&columns=*,0,0 ''Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace'']. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2007.</span> | ||
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<span>ProGenealogists. “Internet Citation Guide for Genealogists,” in ''ProGenealogists'' Internet site, 1998-2007, at http://www.progenealogists.com/citationguide.htm, accessed 17 November 2007.</span> | <span>ProGenealogists. “Internet Citation Guide for Genealogists,” in ''ProGenealogists'' Internet site, 1998-2007, at http://www.progenealogists.com/citationguide.htm, accessed 17 November 2007.</span> | ||
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