CitationPageFormattingStyleGuidelines
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Specifically this webpage describes the formatting guidelines for Bibliographic Citation Pages.
A template can be found here: CitationPageFormattingStyleTemplate.
The guidelines can be found below.
Format
A Bibliographic Citation Page has the following format:
FormalCitationIdentifier
Subject Headings: KeyWords
Notes
NotesList
Cited By
CitedByList
Quotes
QuotesList
References
CitationList
FormalCitationIdentifier
The first line of the citation has the following format:
- (First LastName (& Second LastName or "et al"), YYYY) ⇒ First Author Full Name, Second Author Full Name, ..., and Final Author Full Name. (YYYY). “[PublicationURL|PublicationTitle]]. PublicationBook. (PublicationAbbreviation YYYY).
Note that some author names can have double-brackets around them: First Last. E.g. Gabor Melli, Ted Pedersen, etc.
Example
- (Jijkoun et al., 2008) ⇒ Valentin Jijkoun, Mahboob Alam Khalid, Ted Pedersen, and Maarten de Rijke\n. (2008). “Named entity normalization in user generated content.” In: Proceedings of the second workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data ([[AND] 2008).
YYYY:
This refers to the year of publication.
YYYY_AbbreviatedTitle:
This refers to the Identifier of the Bibliographic Citation Webpage.
PublicationTitle:
This refers to the Publication Title.
Note that it includes a period at the end; unless some punctuation already exists.
PublicationURL
This refers to a URL that will quickly lead the reader to the publication
- Often many websites can be candidates for linking to. The following list gives the priority sequence:
- 1. ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm)
- 2. The PDF file (from the most reputable location provided by Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com).
- 3. The Wikipedia page. E.g. the book the Meaning of Meaning is too old to be available online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Meaning
- 4. Any other page.
PublicationBook
This item contains the name of the larger publication book that the publication item was first published in. Often this larger publication book is a conference 'Proceedings', it can also be a 'Journal'.
The style to follow is to preceded the name with the words In:.
E.g. In: Proceedings of ....
PublicationAbbreviation
This item contains the abbreviation that is sometimes given to the conference proceedings or journal. For example: (KDD-2008), or (TKDD vol3).
KeyWords
The second line of content contains a set of hyperlinks to related concepts.
This line typically requires some extensive background knowledge to fill.
The minimal/default entry for this line is simply:
Subject Headings:
NotesList
The section is where Gabor will place some notes.
The minimal/default entry for this line is simply:
Notes
CitedByList
The section contains references to other publications that comment on this publication. This section is typically populated after reading some other publication, and noticing that it makes reference to this publication.
The minimal/default entry for this line is simply:
Cited By
QuotesList
This section contains direct quotes from the publication. The main interest is on 1) the material that describes the publication, such as the Abstract and Introduction; 2) the material that describes how this publication relates to other work; and 3) the references section.
NEVER include the substance of the publication, such as their novel algorithm or methodology.
References