Wikipedia:WikiProject Romance/Guidelines/References

Welcome to the WikiProject Romance Guidelines - References This is a list of sites which contain useful information and references which can be used. Feel free to add more.

General

 * The Catalog of Copyright Entries - useful for determining if a work has gone out of copyright (good for covers of books, magazines, etc.)

Romance specific

 * RWA - for RITA awards, Hall of Fame citations, etc.
 * FictionDB - useful for getting a list of books for bibliographies, as well as awards.
 * RT Book Reviews - for reviews
 * NYTimes - for reviews and recent listing of bestsellers. Opens to search page.
 * Past NYT bestsellers - an archive of past bestsellers (top 15).
 * Kirkus - for reviews
 * Publishers Weekly - for reviews
 * LibraryJournal - for reviews
 * USAToday - for reviews and interviews
 * USA Today Bestseller List - to search list
 * Journal of Popular Romance Studies
 * Other Academic Guides

Articles to be mined
A list of articles or books published that we've come across but have not yet had time to incorporate into applicable articles. Please feel free to update.


 * Smart Tropes in Sexy Books: Positive Characterization & Good Romance Novels by Maya Rodale on The Mary Sue 6/15/2015
 * Guess What? Erotica Is NOT A New Phenomenon by Caroline Linden on HuffPo
 * Eloisa James on Feminism, Sexuality, and Why Romance Novels Are More Than Worthy of Respect

Citing examples
To properly cite sources in articles, place this code inline (after the information you included that needs to be sourced):

and then make sure you put this under References:

So that your citations show. If it's being used more than once in the same article, do the full citation the first time, but give the ref tag a name like this: and then later in the article you can call this by doing just this:. See the article on this procedure for more explanation.

For books as sources, the relevant pages (or at least the chapter) should be specified; don't make other readers hunt through the whole book for the reference. You should only be using books about romance or its authors, not the books written by the author. In other words, you shouldn't be using an author's book as a source for theme or any other point. See the No original research page for more information about this. Basically, any points that need to be made must come from someone else, published in a reliable source, not you.

If you're citing from the same book but from multiple pages throughout, it can get quite cumbersome to have to keep putting in the full cite book template each time, so you can do a simple markup in the ref tag and then make two sections: one called Notes, where you put the tag; and a References section, where you place the cite book template citation. See example here: CSS Virginia II. SOOO much easier to cite things that way and cleaner when editing.

Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels:

Beyond Heaving Bosoms

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women

Dear Bitches, Smart Authors Don't just link to the main website, as this forces other editors to hunt for the specific podcast the link is supposed to be citing.