Geeks are glorious.
You don't even know -- my brain is going "APA style is HIDEOUS! Why all the periods?!?" #editorwars
I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.
Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
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Steph L. - Dec 04, 2014 7:31:00 am PST #14765 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 7:49:48 am PST #14766 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
IEEE style if you presented it at the related conference:
S. Lastname, "I thought this shirt was clean: a study of the effects of laundering on fur deposits in common fabrics," in Proc. Conf. Household Animal Fur Res., Cincinnati, OH, USA, Dec. 2014, pp. 2-9.
AMA style is the reason I have to put all the periods back into the references whenever I get a paper from an author who does medical research. fist shake #editorwars
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2014 7:53:41 am PST #14767 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Hey, we're being clean and saving ink by getting rid of all that crazy crazy punctuation, man.
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 7:54:46 am PST #14768 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Suzi, your good CJ!school news didn't get lost in all our editor rambling! That's great news, in fact! I'm sure you're thrilled and he is too!
flea - Dec 04, 2014 7:55:24 am PST #14769 of 30002
information libertarian
I love you guys.
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 7:56:21 am PST #14770 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
getting rid of all that crazy crazy punctuation, man.
You can't just truncate a word and not put a period there! It'll bleed to death. Like my eyes, looking at it.
Laura - Dec 04, 2014 7:58:04 am PST #14771 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Wonderful news, Suzi! That is so good to read.
Oh, Steph, I know. As I was writing it, I was thinking, "This is so not IEEE style."
I love you all, and sincerely apologize for any pain experienced when reading my grammatically random posts.
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 8:03:30 am PST #14772 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
No worries, Laura, B.org is where I come to escape from the awful grammar of the rest of the Internet.
I love/It's sad that we went from quasi-science to editor-geek in nothing flat.
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2014 8:03:37 am PST #14773 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
grammatically random posts.
Wait. I say this ALL the time: anyone reading what I post on the internet must think my clients are INSANE to pay me to edit, because my syntax and grammar are...not exactly AMA style. I say things like "I cannot brain, because insomnia." There is no style guide in which that is anything but a shambling horror.
Really, I get paid to make things very precise, and in that context, it's important as hell. (Well, I don't know why references have to be SO exacting, but whatevs.) But otherwise -- I'm pretty sure my posts make me sound like a crazy person who never quite met up with a grammar textbook.
EpicTangent - Dec 04, 2014 8:06:41 am PST #14774 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
L. B., Steph. (2014). I thought this shirt was clean: a study of the effects of laundering on fur deposits in common fabrics. Annals of Household Animal Fur Research, 53, 234-257.
Ahem.
L.B., S., etc.
APA at my school - much like Hil, I have to check the manual Every Single Time because MLA is what I learned in school. Thankfully, no bibliography/reference pages at work. (Seriously thankfully now that I think about it. Like, I should go light a candle or something levels of thankfully).