I find journal abbreviations in the reference lists to be a torment. Maybe there is a list of approved abbreviations but I can't find it. There also appears to be some differences in the abbreviations themselves which compound the difficulty, and some abbreviations for little-known publications are so cryptic that they present a real challenge to decipher. There is also the problem of the older publications (pre-1900), where some journals abbreviate the full title, which can be rather long, and other give a snippet. Both trying to understand the abbreviations when examining the references and having to create them when preparing the references can be quite frustrating. No doubt, space is a factor for editors to desire abbreviations but I don't think most researchers desire them.
Regards,
Ron
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On Sun, 7/27/14, Gerlach <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Dear Alan
That is a good point, and indeed a great source of
frustration. I
would like editors to at least acknowledge that the
format of the
references is unimportant until they have accepted the
manuscript,
only then is it really worth meeting their arbitrary
preferences.
Yes, my book on Partula does cover Pease and Garrett,
very
interesting characters from an interesting time.
Justin
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On 27/07/2014 18:30, Alan Kabat wrote:
Dr. Gerlach --
Thanks, but there still remains the problem of
formatting
the rest of the entry. Some journals want
the authors' names
in all caps, others in mixed case. Some
want the journal name
in italics, others plain text. Some want the
year in
brackets, others in parentheses, and yet others
just with a
period. Some want a period between the
authors' names and the
year, others want a comma.
I was interested to see that you have a new
book coming out
on Partula over the centuries. Does the book
also cover
Garrett and Pease?
Alan Kabat
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From: Gerlach <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, Jul 27, 2014 12:01 pm
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Journal Formats
I
recently read an opinion
piece somewhere (don't remember where)
pointing out that
journal abbreviations are unnecessary in
on-line
publishing, where space is not the
constraint that it
was when everything was hard copy only.
Maybe the end of
title reformatting is approaching
Dr. Justin Gerlach
New publication: Snailing in the South Seas - the
Partula story
Chair - Terrestrial and Freshwater
Invertebrate Red List Authority
(IUCN/SSC)
Facilitator - Climate Change Working Group
of
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group
Scientific Coordinator - Nature Protection Trust of
Seychelles
Affiliated Researcher - University Museum
of Zoology,
Cambridge
Academic Associate - Pembroke College,
Cambridge
Senior Member (Teaching) - Robinson
College, Cambridge
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On 27/07/2014 13:31, Ron G. Noseworthy
wrote:
Hi, everyone!
This may have been covered before but may still be of
interest. It appears that almost every journal has a
different type of format for the research it publishes,
especially the reference list. If researchers decide on a
journal to submit a paper to, and then change to another,
all the formatting usually has to be adjusted. It's not
much of a problem when there is a short reference list but,
when there are a large number of references, changing the
format can be quite time-consuming.
This may be only a "tempest in a teapot" but has
any though been given to a universal standard formal for
journals? I believed it would make things easier when
preparing a manuscript for publication.
Best regards from Korea!
Ron Noseworthy
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