2.2a Interpreting Citations.

2.2a Interpreting Citations.

In summary, the issues covered by this topic are:

How to distinguish between different types of citations
What sorts of items can be readily found in a library catalogue
Why other sorts of material are not included in library catalogues
How to locate these items by title searches or a search by editor name

(Topics in bold are covered by the quiz questions below)

1

Which of the following could indicate that a citation is of a book chapter?

	a)	An underlined title
	b)	Volumes and issue numbers
	c)	The word "in" before the title of the book
	d)	I don't know
Correct. The correct answer is: The word "in" before the title of the book.

2

Match the following citations to the correct citation type:

a)	Ogai, M. 1995, The Wild Goose, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour.
b)	Plante, J. 2002, 'The Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF): Looking forward and looking back'. Telecommunications Journal of Australia, vol. 52, no. 2, Winter, pp. 1-8.
c)	Bob Smith. "Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000-2010: A Decade of Outreach." Evanston Public Library. http://www.epl.org.library/strategic-plan-00.html (accessed 3 October 2002).
d)	Baldock, C.V. & Goodrick, D. 1984, 'Women's participation in the development process', Proceedings of the Women's Studies Section, ANZAAS Congress, May 1983, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA.
Correct.The correct answer is: (in order) a book citation, a journal article citation, a world wide web document citation and a published conference citation. Book citations have a publisher. Journal article citations have volume and issue numbers, but lack a publisher. Word Wide Web document citations always include the internet address (URL) where the document was found. A published conference citation will often include the words 'proceedings of' followed by the name of the conference body.

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