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November 20, 2003
Contest!! Design a Citation Style for Mary's Great Ideas!
I think having a great idea is that much more fun if you get to submit it to a contest, and I want to enter this one! (I just ordered my mousepad, btw, from the last contest I won -- and I'll let you know how sweet it is when it arrives! It'll be almost as sweet as the victory itself, I'll bet!)
So, for the Mary's Great Citation Style contest:
You should create a citation style that people must use in this blog if they want to cite things. Just like when you submit to a journal, you submit using their citation style.
Be sure to tell us how to cite books, journals, websites, and personal communication. Don't worry about the rest unless you want to, or unless you want to point out a way to cite something that is not commonly cited but should be (could you cite a scent, for instance?).
The rules are:
1) The style must be do-able in any common font. (No cyrillic, Thai, etc.) Ideally, no wierd typing at all so curb those umlauts. All other formatting options are open. UPDATE: USE ANY FONT YOU WANT, INCLUDING WING DINGS. Good luck getting Thai to work on this site, though.
2) You must actually be able to find a source using the citation.
3) Ideally, you could then create an Endnote style which could generate it. What would be my dream is to be included in the packaged list of styles. But at the very least I could submit it to the user lists for Endnote.
Them's all the rules I can think of.
First Prize: One marysgreatideas coffee mug!
Enter here with a comment by Dec. 2, 2003. Winner will be announced here and then it's up to you to get in touch with me if I don't already have a way to contact you.
Disclaimer: I reserve the right to cancel this contest at any time. I decide who wins. If no one enters, no one wins. If there are only lame entries, no one wins. If I make the best entry, I win.
Posted by mary at November 20, 2003 1:58 PM
Comments
Just thinking out loud here, but I think there should be variations in how you cite websites depending on the kind of site that it is. For instance, blogs should be cited differently than chatrooms, etc.
Posted by: Mary at November 21, 2003 4:09 PM
Note that I'm changing the rules a little bit as of Nov. 22 so that you can use as many fonts as you like, and the alt keyboard things and ding dongy things, etc.
Posted by: Mary at November 22, 2003 5:13 PM
This contest is too hard.
Posted by: Strawberry Mustard at November 24, 2003 9:37 AM
too hard! too hard!
Man. Kids these days.
Here are some ideas that Pete and I came up with, after chatting about it for just a couple of minutes:
Things you could use:
All caps
Small caps
Authors sans sarif
Titles sarrif
Bold
Outline
Publiction date must be an animated gif
Narrative style: would include all appropriate verbs ("this book was published by ..."
emoticons: smiley face for a good book, confused face for long, complicated, hard to read book
Winking face for sexy book.
Now, I know that actually putting this all together to create a style is hard work, but isn't a coffee mug or mousepad or whatever worth it??
Posted by: Mary at December 1, 2003 1:41 PM
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