Citing standard and style(2013) summary

CITING – STANDARD AND STYLE Milena Tsvetkova

Цветкова, Милена Иванова, 1970Цитирането : стандарт и стил / Милена Цветкова ; [науч. ред. Веселина Вълканова]. София : Библиоскоп, 2013 (София : БПС). - 305 с. : с табл., сх. ; 21 см. - (Sapienti sat) Загл. на англ. ез.: Citing standard and style. - Науч. ред. отбелязана в библиогр. каре ; Авт. на предг. отбелязана на с. 8. - Homo Citans / Андреана Ефтимова: с. 7-8. - Библиогр.: с.

297-301. - Рез. на англ. ез.

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Summary

The study outlines systematically the rules for citations in research papers in different scientific fields. The purpose of the author is to define and synthesize the citing process as standard, as style, and as referent methods. The book is based on the current international and Bulgarian standards for writing and publishing of scientific works with proper use of references and citations.

The main thematic fields in the study include: actuality of the problem “citation”; rules for citation; literacy in citation; discipline and ethics in citation; functions, anomalies, and formats of the citations as structural base of the interactive citing technology. Outlined are: the two main types of systematic citation – Documentary-note style (references in foot- or endnotes) and Parenthetical style (known as author-date/page or in-text referent system); the three citing methods according to International Standard 690.2 – “Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources”: Name and date system (Harvard style), Numeric system, and Running notes; four university or scientific standard documentation formats – the systems Name/date, Author/page, Notes-bibliography, and Numbered system with the corresponding methods of citation and the spheres of their application (scientific or humanitarian).

Next come the academic styles for bibliographic references and citations defined in three main groups: nature and technical sciences; social sciences; and humanities. According to the official style manuals/handbooks, there are seven academic citation styles and referencing rules for research papers. Described are the main features and rules for citation (with examples) in the five specialized university styles used in different scientific fields: MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and CBE/CSE, as well the two prevalent and accepted and used world-wide academic citing systems – Harvard and Vancouver, with their different formats, style variations, and special cases.

The book is well equipped with different practical appendixes: test of the attitude toward citation as Appendix 1; formatting the bibliographic descriptions to information resources in MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, CBE/CSE, Harvard and Vancouver styles, according to the international standards 690.2 and ISO 690:2010, and the Bulgarian standards BDS ISO 690:2011 and BDS 17377-96 as Appendix 2 (in comparative tables and with description of resources of different types); list of latin abbreviations as Appendix 3; and a selection of recourses for the different styles and different scientific fields as Appendix 4.

In conclusion, there is a fine line between the ethics and the incorrectness, between the rules and the speculations. No author has the right to cross that line.