Subject Research Guide Citation Options

These guidelines are intended to be the ideal layout and coding for citations and other common listings in subject research guides. These do not and cannot address all desired permutations. The goal is to describe and limit the number of permutations, while still being adaptable, to allow consistency across pages, ease and speed of code and maintenance, and to prepare for a 'machine parsable' record which would be used by a database or content management system. Not all guides have this layout yet. It may take some time to achieve this constistency.

• Basic Citations - Print, microform, and CD-ROMs
• Basic Citations - Online sites and resources
• When a list makes most sense

Basic Citations - Print, Microform, and CD-ROMs

1. Author first, title second, publisher info, description

Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs.
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976.
ART REF N40.B47 1976
Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description

2. Title first, author second, publisher info, description

Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs really, really, really, really, really, really, long title. Benezit, Emmanuel.
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976.
ART REF N40.B47 1976
Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description

3. Title first, no author, no publisher info.

Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs.
ART REF N40.B47 1976
Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description
     Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description

4. Title first, author second, publisher info, no description

Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs.
ART REF N40.B47 1976

5. Title first, author second, no description

Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs. Benezit, Emmanuel.
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976.
ART REF N40.B47 1976

Notes:

• Publisher, city and date are optional.
• For reference works creator is optional.
• Call numbers should be complete, including dates if needed. e.g. ART REF N40.B47 1976
• Call numbers should be in all caps and library consistent with IRIS (ALEXANDER, not ALEX)
• Sections, preferably entire pages or even guides should be consistent.
• Always a blank line between each.

Basic Citations - Online sites and resources

Title of document/site

Title of document/site Dr. Smith, University of Somewhere

Title of document/site
Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description

Title of document/site Dr. Smith, University of Somewhere
Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description

Licensed resource (coverage date - date) [Rutgers Restricted]
Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description - Description

Notes:

• [Rutgers Restricted] declaration required for licensed resources.
• Sections, preferably entire pages or even guides should be consistent.
• Dates, Description, name, creator etc. optional

When a list makes most sense

List of paper journals

italicized.

• Abstracts in Anthropology
• American Anthropological Association -AAA Guide
• American Anthropologist
• American Ethnologist
• American Journal of Archeology

List of e-journals, just title

italicized.

• Abstracts in Anthropology
• American Anthropological Association -AAA Guide
• American Anthropologist
• American Ethnologist
• American Journal of Archeology

List of e-journals, long, or with other information

not italicized.

• 100 companies receiving the largest dollar volume of prime contract awards (FDLP).
• 100 contractors receiving the largest dollar volume of prime contract awards for research, development, test, and evaluation .
• 20 leading occupations of employed women : full-time wages and salary workers : annual averages.
• 8th District local notice to mariners, Mississippi River System / Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District (oan) (FDLP).
• 8th District local notice to mariners, Mississippi River System / Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District (oan) (FDLP).
• 8th District local notice to mariners, Mississippi River System. Weekly supplement / Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District (oan) (FDLP).
• 8th District local notice to mariners, Mississippi River System. Weekly supplement / Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District (oan) (FDLP).
• 940e-file program with 940 OLF (On-Line Filing) option : technical specifications guide for the electronic filing of Form 940, employer's federal unemployment (FUTA) tax return.
• 9th District local notice to mariners, guardians of the Great Lakes / Issued by, Commander (oan), Ninth Coast Guard District (FDLP).
• 9th District local notice to mariners, guardians of the Great Lakes / Issued by, Commander (oan), Ninth Coast Guard District (FDLP).
• 9th District local notice to mariners, guardians of the Great Lakes. Weekly ed. / Issued by, Commander (oan), Ninth Coast Guard District (FDLP).
• 9th District local notice to mariners, guardians of the Great Lakes. Weekly ed. / Issued by, Commander (oan), Ninth Coast Guard District (FDLP).

List of links

only italicized if leading to full-text book etc.

• Link to someplace Dr. Smith, Institute of Research on Better Stuff
• Book title Dr. Fred.
• Link to someplace
• Link to someplace Dr. Smith, Institute of Research on Better Stuff

Notes:

• [Rutgers Restricted] declaration required to be declared for whole section if licensed resources (if mixed then declared for each).
• Sections, preferably entire pages or even guides should be consistent.
• There is NO blank line between entries.