[Air-l] A note on (online) bibliography

[Joseph Reagle]

On Friday 20 October 2006 10:24, Anders Fagerjord wrote:
> Styles are a matter of academic discipline, and something often not  
> under your control. I tend to prefer MLA as it not only has specified  
> how to cite almost all kinds of communication, but also because it  
> avoids the necessity for year-and-letter constructions (2004a), and  
> you stay clear of obviously anachronic constructions like "_Rhetoric_  
> (Aristotle, 1989)."

Yes, my crunching of the title into an abbreviation serves a similar purpose 
(e.g., Wikipedia 2006npov). However I would not go the MLA route for 
historic and ethnographic archival work because the titles of the resources 
would be ungainly, and it would be ambiguous in the end regardless if I'm 
quoting multiple messages in the same thread by the same author.
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