Publishing Styles

 

Publishing styles are guidelines for the presentation of bibliographic information in a citation. These rules tell you in what sequence the different pieces of information should be arranged, the punctuation to separate different types of information, as well as any print attributes inserted to highlight specific pieces of information (such as italics for Journal names and book titles, or bold for Author names). The publishing styles are set for each individual document. They take the information from the Ibidem database and arrange it according to the requirements of the style. The following citations, for instance, are for the same book, and they are based on the same Ibidem record. The information is formatted for different publishing styles:

 

SMITH LB. Genetics revisited, Harcourt, 1994.
Smith, Leonard B. (1994). Genetics Revisited. New York: Harcourt.
L. Smith, Genetics Revisited (New York, Harcourt, 1994).

 

The formatting that is set by selecting a publishing style applies to the text only. Other formatting such as displaying notes as endnotes or footnotes, note placement, and note numbering are not controlled by Ibidem, but are set by using the Nota Bene Note Format Dialog.

 

There are two different ways to select a publishing style for your document. You can select an Academic Style when you create your new file, or you can set the Reference Style from within Ibidem before you insert your first citation.

 

Academic Style Manuals: The Academic Styles feature is used to set the styles for the entire document in accord with major academic style manuals such as Chicago Manual of Style, Turabian, MLA (Modern Language Assoc), or AMA (American Medical Association). These style manuals include specifications for the body of the text (headings, spacing, margins, etc.) as well as the style for the citations and bibliography. See Academic Styles.
Set Reference Style:  Ibidem offers a couple of hundred different publishing styles that set styles for the citations and bibliography. Academic journals typically have their own have their own style requirements for citations and bibiliographies. Both footnote/endnote styles and short form (author-date) styles are available. Reference Styles are set from within Ibidem by clicking Cite, Set Reference Style. If you have already set an Academic Style, that style will be used as the reference style. To define the reference style for your document, see Reference Style for Current Document.

 

The Preview Pane gives you a look at the way citations will be formatted, using a particular publishing style. See Preview Pane and Previewing Styles.

 

 

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