Perhaps all of you already know, but I just found out that if you go to
WorldCat
http://worldcat.org/
(master catalog of virtually all American [& other??] libraries -- at least
for their books) and put in your search entry, and find your book, then
look down and you'll see a line below the entry and right above the line,
the words
"Citations: Cite this entry . . . "
If you click on "Cite this entry" it will give you -- well, here's an
example (minus the formatting and hence more difficult to read): for a book
called "The road to Salem."
Citation Styles for "The road to Salem,"
APA
* Fries, A. L. (1944). The road to Salem. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press.
Chicago (Author-Date)
* Fries, Adelaide L. 1944. The road to Salem. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press.
Harvard
* FRIES, A. L. (1944). The road to Salem. Chapel Hill, University of North
Carolina Press.
MLA
* Fries, Adelaide L. The Road to Salem. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1944.
Turabian
* Fries, Adelaide L. The Road to Salem. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1944.
And, of course, you can just copy and paste.
Word of warning, if you're citing a book that's gone thru multiple editions,
be sure to find an example of the same edition you used, before you copy the
citation.
I don't know which style (if any) is recommended by the Nat'l Gen Soc., but
when I was in graduate school in history (40 years ago), Turabian was the
standard.
In the English Dept., MLA was th standard.
Incidentally, I've just discovered World Cat, which has all sorts of neat
things to aid the researcher (once you've registered and signed in -- no
fee).
You can keep a list of all the books that interest you-- just by clicking
them --AND you can organize them into various lists -- so far I've just got
two lists: L-SIDE [maternal] and P-SIDE [paternal -- my maiden name begins
with a 'P']. You just click the book, choose the list -- and there it is!
Also I've found WorldCat to be VERY speedy (I have DSL connection to the
I'net).
In addition, under the prevously-mentioned line, you have an opportunity to
enter your zipcode, and then if you click on Libraries, WorldCat gives you a
list of the libraries that have that particular book -- arranged in order
according to how close they are to your zip code! (I just put in a
particular Moravian diary and got a list of 455 libraries!! the nearest one
42 miles away.)
So you could also have lists divided into libraries, or locations, etc.
So if you haven't already used it, give it a whirl. It is VERY
user-friendly.
Oh, I looked recently for a fairly rare book and found thru World Cat that
HeritageQuestOnline has it.
I'm not sure of the extent to which WorldCat has digitized books but I THINK
I read that this is in the works.
--
Pat
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