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From: "Richard, Barbara & Robbie Damon" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Citing E-Mails Part #2
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:41:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDEECGDDAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheri Casper [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:15 PM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] Citing E-Mails Part #2
>
>
> Thanks to everyone who forwarded their suggestions for citing e-mails.
> There are some excellent ideas set forth and I am reflecting on how to use
> them to create my "dream" citation. One question though: Other than
> Caroline Gurney's format which has a field called [Period] which
> allows for
> the time span of the correspondence, how do the rest of you cope with the
> date in the bibliographic entry since the [CD] can't be used in the Bib
> template? Mills shows the date of the correspondence. Do you (1) ignore
> that, (2) put the beginning date of the first correspondence to
> the current
> year, (3) use the first date with [ITAL:]et. seq.[;ITAL], or (4) use some
> other convention for the bib? I am trying to devise something that will
> effectively with *all* contingencies including embedded citations, fairly
> close conformity to Mills, and consolidation into one source a series of
> communications between the same two people. This may not be
> accomplishable
> entirely to my satisfaction but I think that Don Zochert's method comes
> closest to doing this. Now if only I hadn't spent years teaching business
> students how to do type and format such things as reports with
> footnotes and
> bibliographies, I wouldn't be so picky about this. <g>
>
> TIA.
>
> CheriC

If the date is in the CD, then you are using (probably) generic sources.
Generic sources only generate generic bibliography entries, that is one of
the cost/benefits of generic sources. If you are using only partially
generic (one source for all correspondences with one person) then a date
range (or from starting date) could be added. It may not be exactly
according to Mills, but should be good enough. I personally am not a big fan
of using Latin phrases/abbreviations as many of my targets may not fully
understand them.

Richard Damon
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