[Air-L] different strokes for different disciplines

[Peter Timusk]

On 26-Oct-08, at 6:33 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:

> Different disciplines have different rules re Citation forms.
> Sociology (and me) prefer full first names -- we are people after all.
> Psych (and those like Comm who follow APA) use initials. This always
> seemed antiseptic.


Legal studies I was taught began to use first names to promote women  
scholars because first names implied gender. I tend to stick to  
McGill law students style having spent a term course learning it. But  
at work use a modified Chicago style plus Statistics Canada's  
required style. I am now in the sciences again at school so will be  
learning a new style for my thesis. Probably some ACM or IEEE style.

Ok "style a many"... I have been using and learning RefWorks and it  
can output your lists in a variety of styles. BibTeX also offers this.

My present project is to save all my blog posts from blogger as html  
and then turn my DT tags into citations. Each DT tag has a generally  
proper McGill style within it. Then the DD tag right after has my  
review or progress notes. I hope to learn enough Perl or regular  
expressions to extract from these text html files a proper BibTeX  
citation file(s) to work with.