The Columbia Guide to Online Style / Edition 2

by Janice Walker, Todd Taylor

Overview

The Columbia Guide to Online Style is the standard resource for citing electronic and electronically accessed sources. It is also a critical style guide for creating documents electronically for submission for print or electronic publication.

Updated and expanded, this guide now explains how to cite technologies such as Web logs and pod casts; provides more guidance on translating the elements of Columbia Online Style (COS) citations for use with existing print-based formats (such as MLA, APA, and Chicago); and features additional guidelines for producing online and print documents based on new standards of markup language and publication technologies.

This edition also includes new bibliographic styles for humanities and scientific projects; examples of footnotes and endnotes for Chicago-style papers; greater detail regarding in-text and parenthetic reference and footnote styles; an added chapter on how to locate and evaluate sources for research in the electronic age; and new examples for citing full-text or full-image articles from online library databases, along with information on how to credit the source of graphics and multimedia files.

Staying ahead of rapidly evolving technologies, The Columbia Guide to Online Style continues to be a vital tool for online researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231132107
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	10/24/2006
Series:	Columbia Guide to Online Style (Hardcove
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Janice R. Walker is an associate professor in the Writing and Linguistics Department at Georgia Southern University and an associate editor of Readerly/Writerly Texts.Todd Taylor is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the coeditor of Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Part 1. Locating and Citing Source Materials
Chapter 1. Research in the Electronic Age
Chapter 2. The Logic of Citation
Chapter 3. Citing Electronic Sources in the Humanities
Chapter 4. Citing Electronic Sources in the Sciences
Part 2. Preparing Manuscripts for Print and Electronic Publication
Chapter 5. The Logic of Document Style
Chapter 6. Creating Documents for Print
Chapter 7. Creating Documents for Electronic Publication
Appendixes
Appendix A. Starting Points for Online Research
Appendix B. File Extensions
Appendix C. Abbreviations
Appendix D. Other Documentation Styles
Appendix E. Selected Bibliography
Appendix F. ISO Latin-1 Characters and Control Characters
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

The Columbia Guide to Online Style is the go-to resource... [And] Has become the standard reference for online citations and remains a vital companion.

Interactions

The Columbia Guide to Online Style is essential for all academic, special, public, and school libraries.

American Reference Books Annual

Nothing I have seen approaches The Columbia Guide to Online Style in meeting the needs of those who want to cite as well as produce documents for electronic publication. [This book] fills the many gaps that APA, MLA, and Chicago fail to cover in their latest editions.

Susanna Pathak

As an author of composition handbooks who has, for more than a decade, wrestled with the intricacies of MLA and APA documentation, I admire the level of detail here. The volume will be invaluable-the standard for years to come.

John Ruskiewicz

Significant and much-needed scholarship. To my knowledge this is the first full-blown truly scholarly treatment of online style.

arry M. BMaid

Significant and much-needed scholarship. To my knowledge this is the first full-blown truly scholarly treatment of online style.

Barry M. Maid

In the last five years new editions of the standard manuals of style and citation have appeared (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style, Univ. of Chicago, 1993; Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers, MLA, 1994), which writers, publishers, librarians, and academics hoped would give authoritative answers to the troublesome questions posed by electronic media. But none of these guides adequately addressed the crucial changes brought on by the World Wide Web. In 1994, Walker (English, Univ. of South Florida) developed a simple and effective style sheet for citing online resources and posted it on the web. The style was quickly endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing, and her guidelines have been adopted by numerous online journals. Now Walker and Taylor (English, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) have produced a comprehensive manual that not only covers citation of online documents but provides guidelines for producing them. Part 1 presents an adaptable "citation template" with numerous helpful examples in both a humanities style, based on Modern Language Association form, and a scientific style much like that of the American Psychological Association. Part 2 gives a theoretical rationale for document style and describes standards for producing online documents. While the guidelines in this book are not likely to change dramatically, any changes will be made available free of charge at the publisher's web site, . With its index and annotated glossary, this guide is an excellent supplement to the standard style manuals.--Paul A. D'Alessandro, Portland P.L., ME

Library Journal

Presents rules for writers of electronic documents, as well as writers who wish to cite electronic sources in their works. Distinguishes standards for scientific and humanities writing. Discusses citation of World Wide Web documents, e-mail, and graphics files. Also presents standards for computer production of documents intended for print media and for electronic publication. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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