Dear Folks -

Bibliographies! Those things only of interest to us bibliographers and library data curators.

Not knowing what your preference is, here’s some discussion points for you, Tim (titles should be in italics; don’t know if it will come through in the TML):

Example 1 – an online PDF, Harvard style (UWS 2013):

Este, J, Warren, C, Connor, L, Brown, M, Pollard, R, O’Connor, T 2008, Life in the clickstream: the future of journalism, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, viewed 27 May 2009, <http://www.alliance.org.au/documents/foj_report_final.pdf>.

Example 2 – electronic-only document unavailable in print, with explanation (Tufts 2003):

Wire service and other materials that are unavailable in printed form or are difficult to obtain in the original, however, may be cited as “available in” a database.

Most articles found in electronic databases do not indicate the original page numbers within the electronic text. If you are footnoting the article and would normally supply a page number (as for a quotation), you may want to cite the database in which you found the article, to make clear the reason for lack of a page citation, and to facilitate location of the passage by the reader.

Emery, Noemie 2002, “Quagmire Nostalgia: The Media are Forever Bogged Down in Vietnam”, The Weekly Standard, November 11, 2002. Accessed March 10, 2003. Available from LexisNexis.

Example 3 – Ebook, with explanation (UWS 2013):

Storey, KB, 2004, Functional metabolism: regulation and adaptation, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, viewed 4 April 2009, NetLibrary database.

Note: If an e-book is publicly accessible via the Internet, include the URL instead of database name. e.g. viewed 4 April 2009, <http://www…>

If the e-book is edited, include editor information as in the ‘Edited book’ example.

So my take is this: if you have an electronic-only version of a document, and which is no longer available even from a publisher, use the following:

Jones-Law, Thomas 2003, Traveller’s Aide #6: Against Gravity, QuikLink Interactive, USA, PDF no longer available from QuikLink.

BTW, the list of QuikLink products (with links to individual blurbs and cover pics) is here:

http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/QuickLink_Interactive_List

It includes a link to a page about TA #9, with a cover pic, and says it was available as a PDF.

References (for the examples above)

University of Western Sydney Library 2013, Harvard Referencing Style Guide, UWS, Penrith, NSW, Australia, viewed 10/09/2014, <http://www.google.com.au/url?q=http://library.uws.edu.au/uws_library/sites/default/files/cite_Harvard.pdf&sa=U&ei=WJgPVPeTKsSLuAT6mICICg&ved=0CEEQFjAH&usg=AFQjCNHuJZEDQKc4yr0CMteEjBNBuL6B7w>

Tufts University Libraries, 2003, Footnote and Bibliographic Citations, Tufts University, Somerville, MA, USA, viewed 10/09/2014, <http://www.google.com.au/url?q=http://www.library.tufts.edu/ginn/pdf/FootnoteandReference-1.pdf&sa=U&ei=WJgPVPeTKsSLuAT6mICICg&ved=0CBQQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHKHIlEXN3TGQEQ2qWUb2iBfdNTDA>

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