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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2008-02-27 09:16 am

Bibliographic standard for Sfeditors wiki

I've noticed quite a few editors tend to post their work listings on SF Editors in reverse order, like one might on a resume. I myself tend toward the chronological standard most used in wikipedia. That might be my history degree speaking. I've also see listings with title, author, author --title, etc. many different ways to present this information. Just for kicks, I'd like to know how other people would format entries (feel free to browse SFeditors to get a feel for variation. (Check recent changes to find ones I haven't resorted yet.)

(as an aside, I've already suggested in the template that publisher only be listed where the editor is freelance or the title is not by their primary publisher. for the moment anyway, that keeps listings cleaner and makes it easier for people to add information quickly.)

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[identity profile] netmouse.livejournal.com 2008-02-27 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a list of books by editors, not books by authors. so it's Rick P. Editor we're interested in, not Jean Q. Author.

within each editor's page, I'm tempted to believe other people that what's most important is the author names and those should lead, followed by the titles.

We call out the year they are published in list subheaders anyway, so that needn't appear in the book's line.