The Columbia Guide to Online Style - Softcover

Walker, Professor Janice R.; Taylor, Professor Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231107897 ISBN 13: 9780231107891

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1998

Synopsis

At last, an authoritative guide for citing and creating electronic sources. While there are several handbooks and manuals that dictate style for traditional print media, until now, no single volume has adequately addressed the complications and transformations caused by the proliferation of online publishing. The Columbia Guide to Online Style makes the methods of online citation and production accessible to a wide audience, addressing the urgent needs of students, scholars, and professionals.

About this title

Review:

You're preparing the bibliography of your research project, and some of your information came from documents you found on the Internet. How do you cite the Web sites? Scholarly citations of hard-copy texts such as books, magazines, and journals follow long-established rules, but electronic sources don't often fit neatly into standard patterns. Clearly, new guidelines need to be set to keep up with the evolution of the Internet. The Columbia Guide steps into the breach with admirable attention to detail as well as discussions of purpose and intent to clarify and support its online style solutions. After revisiting the principles of access, intellectual property, economy, standardization, and clarity that underlie the rules of citing sources, Walker and Taylor delve into the nitty-gritty of URLs and login names, signature files and publication information, providing both humanities-style and sciences-style examples for each.

With a similarly careful, logical, and scholarly progression, they cover bibliographic formats for the World Wide Web, e-mail, discussion lists, and newsgroups, plus document style (and its logic) when formatting for print publications, diskettes, and computer networks. When you work in this virual world, which changes so frequently and dynamically, where anything seems possible and conventions be damned, it's especially important to standardize and adhere to some rules, a goal greatly advanced by The Columbia Guide to Online Style. --Stephanie Gold

Book Description:

An up-to-date style manual that has become the standard guide for online researchers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0231107897
• ISBN 13: 9780231107891
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224