On 26-Oct-08, at 6:33 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
Different disciplines have different rules re Citation forms. Sociology (and me) prefer full first names -- we are people after all. Psych (and those like Comm who follow APA) use initials. This always seemed antiseptic.
Legal studies I was taught began to use first names to promote women scholars because first names implied gender. I tend to stick to McGill law students style having spent a term course learning it. But at work use a modified Chicago style plus Statistics Canada's required style. I am now in the sciences again at school so will be learning a new style for my thesis. Probably some ACM or IEEE style. Ok "style a many"... I have been using and learning RefWorks and it can output your lists in a variety of styles. BibTeX also offers this. My present project is to save all my blog posts from blogger as html and then turn my DT tags into citations. Each DT tag has a generally proper McGill style within it. Then the DD tag right after has my review or progress notes. I hope to learn enough Perl or regular expressions to extract from these text html files a proper BibTeX citation file(s) to work with.