scholarship is changing...and in many ways it isn't some scholars are at the technological bleeding edge...and many are not routines and gatekeeper practices are shifting...but not for everyone new things count for promotion & tenure...and some places they simply do not What does this transitional condition mean for citation? To the best of your ability, with the lowest transaction cost for the readers, reviewers & editors, you must help us validate your citations when we choose to do so. Old school conventions need to be obeyed, for now, until new ones are more firmly established. Early adopters of new conventions beware (but thank-you!) as you will need to use them, for now, only to augment old conventions. Users of eBooks should comment regularly to makers of eBooks about the need for meta data options in the reader screen. Five to seven years from know, the current citation paradigm will be gone; dust in the wind. A more hypertext-driven social annotation/citation paradigm will emerge in e-journals so that anytime you see a quotation you will be able to click on it and see abundant meta data for the quote or citation, as well as the inventory of ways in which that cited item has been used in your discipline and more generally. The best book I have read on the general subject: Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/> Have you tried DiscoverText? http://discovertext.com *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*