The Columbia Guide to Online Style

by Walker, Janice R.; Taylor, Todd W.

• ISBN13: 9780231107884
• ISBN10: 0231107889
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Students, teachers, librarians, and researches who use online sources face new questions when writing footnotes or bibliographic entries for their papers and dissertations. On the Internet, sources change, move, and sometimes disappear, yet users must be able to cite informations accurately in order to maintain credibility. In response to the needs of her students and herself, Janice Walker created the Walker/ACW Style Sheet in 1994, posted it on the web, and received an overwhelming response. The Walker Style Sheet was endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing and was hailed by Newsweek as "a good stop gap." Internet World called it "the most authoritative version" and the "most frequently accessed styleguide on the net," and the Chronicle of Higher Education and USA Today have both cited Walker's work in recent articles. Now Walker and Taylor have expanded the original style sheet into a comprehensive yet user-friendly guide. In addition to providing rules for citation, they also give complete guidelines for formatting documents for online publication and for electronically preparing texts for print publication.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix	(2)
Preface	xi
Introduction Bottling the Ether	1	(8)
PART 1 CITATION	9	(96)
1 The Logic of Citation	9	(12)
Five Principles of Citation Style	11	(4)
Reconsidering the Principles of Citation Online	15	(6)
2 Citing Electronic Sources	21	(84)
The Elements of Citation	22	(15)
2.1 Authorship	22	(5)
2.2 Publication Information	27	(10)
Documenting Sources in the Text	37	(6)
2.3 Author's Name	38	(1)
2.4 Multiple Works by the Same Author	39	(2)
2.5 No Author Listed	41	(1)
2.6 Navigation	41	(1)
2.7 Subsequent References to the Same Work	42	(1)
Preparing the Bibliographic Material	43	(62)
2.8 The World Wide Web (WWW)	44	(21)
2.9 Email, Discussion Lists, and Newsgroups	65	(6)
2.10 Information Available Using Gopher Protocols	71	(5)
2.11 Information Available Using File Transfer Protocols (FTP)	76	(5)
2.12 Information Available Using Telnet Protocols	81	(7)
2.13 Synchronous Communication Sites	88	(4)
2.14 Online Reference Sources	92	(4)
2.15 Electronic Publications and Online Databases	96	(3)
2.16 Software Programs and Video Games	99	(6)
PART 2 PRODUCTION	105	(88)
3 The Logic of Document Style	105	(10)
4 Formats Intended for Print Publication	115	(36)
The Parts of the Text	118	(11)
4.1 Front Matter	118	(6)
4.2 Back Matter	124	(5)
Producing Hard-Copy Documents on a Word Processor	129	(19)
4.3 Paper	129	(1)
4.4 Printing	129	(1)
4.5 Binding	130	(1)
4.6 Margins	130	(1)
4.7 Spacing	130	(1)
4.8 Fonts	130	(1)
4.9 Formatting Techniques	131	(2)
4.10 Special Characters	133	(1)
4.11 Bylines	134	(1)
4.12 Titles	135	(1)
4.13 Section or Page Numbers	136	(1)
4.14 Headers and Footers	136	(1)
4.15 Subheads	137	(1)
4.16 Paragraphs	138	(2)
4.17 Lists	140	(3)
4.18 Quotations	143	(1)
4.19 Note References	144	(1)
4.20 Artwork	144	(4)
Preparing Diskettes	148	(3)
4.21 Naming Computer Files	148	(1)
4.22 Sending Diskettes Through the Mail	149	(2)
5 Network Format	151	(26)
The Parts of the Text	153	(11)
5.1 Front Matter	153	(6)
5.2 Back Matter	159	(5)
Publishing Documents on a Computer Network	164	(13)
5.3 File Organization	164	(1)
5.4 Navigating and Frames	165	(1)
5.5 Links	165	(1)
5.6 Colors	166	(1)
5.7 Spacing	167	(1)
5.8 Fonts	167	(1)
5.9 Formatting Techniques	167	(2)
5.10 Special Characters	169	(1)
5.11 Bylines	169	(1)
5.12 Titles	170	(1)
5.13 Section Numbers	170	(1)
5.14 Return Links	171	(1)
5.15 Subheads	171	(1)
5.16 Paragraphs	171	(1)
5.17 Lists	171	(1)
5.18 Quotations	172	(1)
5.19 Note References	172	(1)
5.20 Artwork	172	(3)
5.21 Diskettes	175	(2)
6 Beyond Basic Style Additional Considerations for Online Authors	177	(16)
Formats and Protocols	178	(5)
Accessibility and Stability	183	(2)
Considerations for Advanced Design	185	(5)
Conventions for the Visually Impaired	190	(1)
Conclusion	190	(3)
Appendix ISO Latin-1 Characters and Control Characters	193	(6)
Glossary	199	(14)
Index	213