A comprehensive style guide for Citing Medicine from the National Library of Medicine in the USA.
The Internet has fundamentally changed the publishing model that authors, editors and publishers have followed for centuries. Information that took months or years to publish, edit and distribute in print is now produced and available to the public worldwide on an accelerated schedule. Despite changes brought by technology, the need to accurately cite the source of information for scholarly publication remains. And, while the need to cite remains, the challenges of collecting and reporting accurate, lasting citation information have increased tremendously. Electronic publishing creates new issues of impermanence that paper did not present.
This guide helps authors cope with this new era of electronic information, both permanent and ephemeral.
Here at Fade we frequently get asked questions about the best and most accurate methods to cite material. If you’re on a course we’d encourage you to get in touch, and yes we’re sad enough to be bothered about citation systems and styles. That’s why we keep a weather eye on materials for you in this important area. We like this guide because it operates at three levels:
- Diagrammed Citation – Many people need to format a non-complex citation and want to know how to format a citation, without learning why it should be structured that way.
- General Rules and Examples – A smaller number of people will need to view the General Rules and Examples sections to get more information. They either will have a specific problem to solve or their work requires them to build a general knowledge of citation that they can later apply to specific cases.
- Specific Rules – A yet smaller number of people will need to enter the Specific Rules section to solve a specific problem, such as handling non-English citations.
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