Often the DOIs and URLs in a reference list create large, ugly gaps (especially if the list is justified) because they do not break nicely. The Online Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition - login required) recommends breaking long URLs: • ‘After a colon or a double...
A DOI is a digital object Identifier, which is a unique string of numbers, letters, and symbols that identifies a document or article and provides it with a permanent web address. An example is https://doi.org/10.1080/2372966X.2021.1883996. Because it is a permanent...
Referencing styles have usually been created by an organisation that specialises in a certain tyle of information, and the styles specify: how to arrange items in a reference list, eg in alphabetical or numerical order how to arrange and punctuate the author, title,...
Reference list A reference list is a list of the books and other items referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an appendix. It can be in alphabetical or numerical order, and should give the author, title, date and source of the referenced items in enough...
What is a live bibliography? A live bibliography or reference list has live hyperlinks (usually blue and underlined. If you click on it, the live link should take you to the web address where the reference is found). Web addresses can be DOIs or URLs. Should editors...
First check your style guide and follow that if you can. If the country has changed its name, list its publications under their names as they appear in the source (including any spelling mistakes! But put a [sic] after those) then have a 'see' or ‘see also’...
The useful information below comes from a [PEGforum] et al. thread started on 2023-07-27, and a [PEGforum] Use of italics for Latin abbreviations thread that started on 2023-07-28. Question Please tell me if ‟et al.” should be italicised in English. Answer 1 Here is...
