User:Tvdockum/explaining ref codes


 * Dragonfly6-7 if they're online, that's preferable. You can use newspapers, too, or magazines
 * Dragonfly6-7> let's say it's a website
 * Dragonfly6-7> use the following format
 * celia> but many of the links are trade magazines, academic publications, supplements of newspapers
 * Dragonfly6-7>
 * Dragonfly6-7> that's okay. You can use bibliographic information
 * Dragonfly6-7> PlaywrightsGalore.org does not actually exist, by the way
 * Dragonfly6-7> I'm just using this as an example
 * Dragonfly6-7> you see the   ?
 * celia> yes
 * Dragonfly6-7>   closes it
 * Dragonfly6-7> if you have any of them mismatched, you'll get a big red error message
 * Dragonfly6-7> next, let's say you're using a magazine article
 * Dragonfly6-7> like this, then
 * Dragonfly6-7>
 * celia> yes, but again, the sources are compilations and academic publications, which format do I use?
 * Dragonfly6-7> just use basic bibliographic data, enough so that someone else could hypothetically go to a university library and track down another copy of your source
 * Dragonfly6-7> by using, you make it inline
 * Dragonfly6-7> now, here's another very important detail
 * Dragonfly6-7> the reference must come IMMEDIATELY after the statement it supports
 * Dragonfly6-7> like so
 * Dragonfly6-7> let me show you the example
 * Dragonfly6-7> Bruce Moose is the only playwright in the United States to have antlers.
 * Dragonfly6-7> see, this way the sentence and the source supporting it are connected
 * celia> got it
 * Dragonfly6-7> and then, at the very end of the article
 * Dragonfly6-7> you create a section called "References"
 * Dragonfly6-7> and its content is the following
 * celia> so include the source within the body of the essay?
 * Dragonfly6-7> Correct!
 * Dragonfly6-7> its content is the following:
 * Dragonfly6-7>
 * celia> ok
 * Dragonfly6-7> what does is, it makes the references *appear* at the end of the article.... even though they are *positioned* throughout the body of the article
 * Dragonfly6-7> you include *only once*
 * celia> ok
 * Dragonfly6-7> oh, and another nice thing does -- it automatically numbers all the references for you
 * Dragonfly6-7> and it renumbers them if you move any of them around
 * Dragonfly6-7> convenient, eh?
 * celia> so do I need to create dmy own ref list at the end of the essay?
 * Dragonfly6-7> you just type at the end of the article, and the software does the rest
 * celia> ok - any other pointers before I begin?
 * Dragonfly6-7> as a matter of fact
 * Dragonfly6-7> there are some references that you use multiple times. Correct?
 * celia> yes
 * Dragonfly6-7> there's a shortcut for that
 * celia> ok
 * Dragonfly6-7> let's say we're using the NY Times article repeatedly
 * Dragonfly6-7> the *first* time you use it
 * Dragonfly6-7> you put it like this:
 * Dragonfly6-7>
 * ok
 * Dragonfly6-7> and every time *after* that, you type ONLY the following:
 * Dragonfly6-7> note the position of the /