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Tracing Bibliographies, Notes, and References

One way to evaluate an author's work and to find other sources is to check bibliographies, footnotes, and references. Different academic disciplines have their own style guides for citation (e.g. MLA, and APA). Style guides for citation are available in ready reference, next to the Ask Us! desk on the 2nd floor of Chalmers library.

example 1

 

G. Leech, R. Garside, and M. Bryant. The large-scale grammatical tagging of text. In N. Oostdijk and P. de Haan, editors, Corpus-Based Research into Language, pages 47--63. Rodopi, Atlanta, 1994.

example 2

 

S. C. Levinson. Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press, 1983.

example 3

 

I. Marshall. Choice of grammatical word-class without global syntactic analysis: tagging words in the LOB corpus. Computers in the Humanities, 17:139--150, 1983.

What kinds of resources are being cited above (in order of their appearance)?

journal article, book, journal article
 essay within a book, book, journal article
 book, book, book
In order to find the resource cited in example 3, your first step is
Do a journal title search for Computers in the Humanities in CONSORT
 Do a title search in OhioLINK for "Choice of grammatical. . ."
 Do a search in CONSORT for the author of the article.

(Sometimes, authors incorrectly cite their materials in print or electronically. The examples above were taken from one of your article readings. In example 3 above, this librarian could find no evidence that Computers in the Humanities exists as a journal--CONSORT, OhioLINK, Worldcat, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory turned up nothing. However, Computers and the Humanities is a journal, and OhioLINK has some issues in its Electronic Journal Center.)