CS 2250
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Midterm Review: Identifying Citations

Summer 1998
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The following examples appear on the back of the Midterm Review sheet. (Download this handout, front only: midtmrev.ps or midtmrev.pdf .) You may wish to attempt identification of the publication-types on your own, before referring to my notes below. Choose from the list of possible publication-types on the Midterm Review, to identify each citation below.

The actual midterm quiz will duplicate this format: 10 examples for students to identify, given a list of the six publication types we've discussed so far. The topical syllabus lists all the publication types in the course, in case you need another source for this information.

It is important to know both the keywords for identifying reference monographs (reference book types) as well as the words which frequently appear on conference literature (such as proceedings, conference, meeting, workshop, symposium, and congress).


   Call Number CN:  TJ260 .H3957 1996.
    Main Title TM:  Heat transfer, Houston, 1996 / Mohamed S. El-Genk, volume
                    editor.
      Pub Info PI:  New York : American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1996.
 Physical Desc PD:  374 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
        Series SR:  AIChE symposium series, 0065-8812 ; no. 310, v. 92.
                    AIChE symposium series ; no. 310.
         Notes NT:  "Papers accepted for presentation at the 31st National
                    Heat Transfer Conference held in Houston, Texas, August
                    5-9, 1996"--Foreword.
                    Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Silliman, R.A., et al. (1996) The care of older persons with diabetes mellitus: families and primary care physicians. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 44:11 (Nov.), 1314-1321.

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Internal Revenue Service. (1982) Statistics of income: individual income tax returns, 1979. Washington, D.C.: GPO IRS Pub. 79-(3-82). 270p.

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Computer physics communications. Volumes 1-98, 1969-1996. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co.

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Peters, Thomas J. (1994)The pursuit of wow!: every person's guide to topsy-turvy times. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books.

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U.S. Congress, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. "Review of the aerospace safety advisory. Hearing before the House Committee." No. 69. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1990. Y4SCI2:101-69.

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   Call Number CN:  E77 .T37X 1974.
   Main Author AM:  Terrell, John Upton, 1900-.
    Main Title TM:  American Indian almanac.
      Pub Info PI:  New York, T. Y. Crowell [1974, c1971].
 Physical Desc PD:  xiv, 494 p. maps. 23 cm.
         Notes NT:  Bibliography: p. 455-466.
                    "The authoritative reference and chronicle" -- Cover.
    Subject(s) SU:  Indians of North America--History.
   Record Type RT:  MON.
      Language LA:  ENG.
   OCLC Number OC:  1108889.

in a bibliography, fewer identifying bits would be indcluded:

Terrell, John Upton. American Indian almanac. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1974.

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Hameroff, S., et al. (1988) Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) applications to molecular electronics. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Part 2. (New Orleans, LA, USA, 19881104-19881107), p. 1009-1011.

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   Call Number CN:  TJ260 .H3957 1996.
    Main Title TM:  Heat transfer, Houston, 1996 / Mohamed S. El-Genk, volume
                    editor.
      Pub Info PI:  New York : American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1996.
 Physical Desc PD:  374 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
        Series SR:  AIChE symposium series, 0065-8812 ; no. 310, v. 92.
                    AIChE symposium series ; no. 310.
         Notes NT:  "Papers accepted for presentation at the 31st National
                    Heat Transfer Conference held in Houston, Texas, August
                    5-9, 1996"--Foreword.
                    Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hints:

  • It's a set of papers from a conference. Be sure to review the list of conference-related keywords from lecture. Can you find the second conference-keyword in this record?
  • This person is an editor, not a personal author. Some samples on the midterm review sheet (front side, chart) use abbreviations like "Eds.," which are also common. An editor is the project director for a collective work, like this set of papers.
  • The total pages of the publication are given, but not a page-range for a specific paper.
  • Specific locations and dates of a meeting are another clue that this work is conference-related.
  • Ask yourself, is it the whole conference proceedings or a specific paper?
  • Answer: conference proceedings.

Go to...
same cite...or...next cite.


Silliman, R.A., et al. (1996) The care of older persons with diabetes mellitus: families and primary care physicians. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 44:11 (Nov.), 1314-1321.

Hints:

  • How many titles do you see? Which title has a telling keyword? Note that some citation formats require "quotation marks" around an article title, while others do not.
  • Page number range. The high numbers result from continuous pagination (lecture four). You might not recognize these numbers as pages right away, but...
  • ...this format is common for volume, issue, & page numbers together: (note special punctuation)

    VOL#:ISS#(MONTH)PAGES.


  • Two titles + page numbers + personal article author + title keyword = journal article.

Go to...
same cite...or...next cite.


Internal Revenue Service. (1982) Statistics of income: individual income tax returns, 1979. Washington, D.C.: GPO IRS Pub. 79-(3-82). 270p.

Hints:

  • Author is a government agency.
  • Publisher's location is Washington, D.C. (Frequently a clue, but not always.)
  • Government Printing Office is the publisher. It is also common that the authoring government agency may be the publisher.
  • Because it's not any specialty type of gov. doc, we'd simply say "government document."

Go to...
same cite...or...next cite.


Computer physics communications. Volumes 1-98, 1969-1996. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co.

Hints:

  • Range of volume numbers, rather than a specific volume.
  • Range of years-in-publication, rather than a specific issue date.
  • It would be highly unusual for a monograph to have a range of publication-dates rather than one specific date. (It's very common, of course, for a monograph to have more than one volume--remember, that's the distinction between the word "book" and the technical term "monograph," that a multivolume work with many "books" in its set would still be a single monograph in most cases.)
  • This type of citation is relatively rare, but it does occur: journal subscription.

Go to...
same cite...or...next cite.


Peters, Thomas J. (1994)The pursuit of wow!: every person's guide to topsy-turvy times. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books.

Hints:


Go to...same cite...or...next cite.


U.S. Congress, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. "Review of the aerospace safety advisory. Hearing before the House Committee." No. 69. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1990. Y4/SCI2:101-69.

Hints:

  • SuDoc number instead of a Library of Congress call number. Note that LC call numbers will almost never contain punctuation marks like colons or slashes, while SuDoc numbers will almost always contain at least one of those two (colons & slashes). The nickname "SuDoc" stands for Superintendent of Documents, the head of the Government Printing Office.
  • Author is a government agency.
  • Location of publication is a center of government (may not always be this city).
  • GPO is the publisher. (Also common to have the authoring agency as the publisher.)
  • We could say "Congressional hearing" to be very specific, but in general, it's just a government document.

Go to...
same cite...or...next cite.



   Call Number CN:  E77 .T37X 1974.
   Main Author AM:  Terrell, John Upton, 1900-.
    Main Title TM:  American Indian almanac.
      Pub Info PI:  New York, T. Y. Crowell [1974, c1971].
 Physical Desc PD:  xiv, 494 p. maps. 23 cm.
         Notes NT:  Bibliography: p. 455-466.
                    "The authoritative reference and chronicle" -- Cover.
    Subject(s) SU:  Indians of North America--History.
   Record Type RT:  MON.
      Language LA:  ENG.
   OCLC Number OC:  1108889.

Hints:


Go to...same cite...or...next cite.


Hameroff, S., et al. (1988) Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) applications to molecular electronics. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Part 2. (New Orleans, LA, USA, 19881104-19881107), p. 1009-1011.

Hints:

  • How many titles do you see? Which title has a telling keyword? Note that some citation formats require "quotation marks" around an article title, while others do not.
  • This abbreviation is Latin. It means "et alia" or "and all the others," and it indicates that Hameroff was the principal author in a research team, though other members of the team are not listed.
  • Specific locations and dates of a meeting are another clue that this work is conference-related. The Engineering Index uses eight-digit numeric codes for such dates: YYYYMMDD.
  • Is this record for a specific paper or for the whole conference?
  • Page numbers + Two titles + Personal author of paper + Title keywords = Conference Paper...




The end. Good luck on the midterm!

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