MLA is a standard in the English department.<div>APA is used by history and the sciences (we also adopted it in media studies).</div><div>Chicago... I honestly don't remember who uses that.</div><div>There's also the style used for DiGRA submissions, which is a whole other format (ACM - American Computer Magazine or something).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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They do mention "Writers are, however, encouraged to provide a URL if
the citation information does not lead readers to easily find the
source." for URL's. I think it is stupid to not reference a URL, it'd
be like referencing a newspaper collectoin without a date and page
(which in fact you might do if you...reference a online news article).
Bemusing...<br>
<br>
As for if they understand technology, who knows...looks a bit backwards
to me on the CD/DVD thing. However any interview correspondence - if
not published somewhere publicly available (ie; not just email) is
always a problem right? Fact-checking unpublished things is next to
impossible, having better or worse references to impossible to get
information is a bit moot :)<br>
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Is this MLA stuff used as a standard in the USA then?<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">I feel this has some relevance to us as preservationists.
While there is no 'Game' listing, the new updates do include a section
on medium:
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<div><a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/" target="_blank">http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/</a></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><strong>Publication
Medium.</strong> Every entry receives a medium of publication marker.
Most entries will be listed as Print or Web, but other possibilities
include Performance, DVD, or TV. Most of these markers will appear at
the end of entries; however, markers for Web sources are followed by
the date of access.</span></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px">Sadly,
listing it as 'DVD' or 'CD' doesn't let you know what platform it is
for! What if I am referencing the Stephen Jay Gould interview on Bully
for Brontosaurus interactive CD for Windows 95? I don't think this will
run in Vista. Or, for a better example, an Amiga CDROM? </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px">I
find this surprising because either a) MLA does not care about getting
software to run or b) they do not have a need to reference older
digital media. Their desire to remove URLs from web references seems to
indicate that they aren't that interested in getting the referenced
source to run. And after all, how can you fact-check a primary source
such as an interview with a dead man or an e-mail interview? You have
to take it at face value.</span></font></div>
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Devin Monnens<br>
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