I agree, Ron
To me, the most recondite of all are the variously-abbreviated
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century journals published in German, in
which my vocabulary is quite limited, e.g., linksgewunden. I've had
to issue an APB (how's that for non-American arcana?) to Conch-L on a
few occasions when all other forensics failed to reconstitute the
full title of the serial.
Harry
Glossary: APB All Points Bulletin. An acronym used by American law enforcement.
At 11:40 PM 7/27/2014, Ron G. Noseworthy wrote:
>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
>
>--------------------------------------------
>On Sun, 7/27/14, Gerlach <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Journal Formats
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Received: Sunday, July 27, 2014, 1:56 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Follow
> @jstgerlach
>
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Gerlach <[log in to unmask]>
>
> To: CONCH-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Follow @jstgerlach
> 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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