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Post by eptownie1988 on May 22, 2008 18:18:02 GMT -5
I would like to know what citations are and how would I obtain such items? Any information is greatly appreciated.
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Post by Howard Metcalfe on May 23, 2008 12:53:06 GMT -5
I would like to know what citations are and how would I obtain such items? Any information is greatly appreciated. In PAWriter, a citation is a description of a source document, ususally a book or an article in a periodical. You enter the description in a form that appears when you choose Citation menu > Edit Citation. You give each citation an abbreviation. Then when you wish to reference the citation in a person's notes, you click on the citation button in the notes window and select the abbreviation of the desired citation from the list of citations you have entered. The abbreviation in curly brackets will be inserted at the current cursor position. When the notes appear in a report (or in draft notes) the citation abbreviation will be expanded to the complete formatted citation that you originally entered. Citations in PAWriter allow you to keep one copy of a source document description, and reference that description multiple times in your notes, without having to reenter the details over and over again. (For instance, as of today, I have 313 citations of books, articles and other sources entered in my file, but I have 15,615 references to them in the notes in that file, an average of 50 references for each citation. That's saved a lot of typing and no doubt a multitude of typos.) Say you are using a book about John Smith's family to source your notes about various members of that family. You would add a citation for the book including author, title, publisher, place and date of publication, etc. Then, in Mary Smith's notes you might quote some text from the book (assuming it's in the public domain), type the footnote reference symbol ^, click on the Footnote with # button, click on the Citation button, double click on the correct citation abbreviation, type a comma and type the page number in the book in which the quoted text appears followed by a period. It might look like this: "Mary Smith was born in 1750 in Dedham...."^
~†{Smith Family}, 452. Then when you write a report such as an HTML Register, the full citation will appear in place of the abbreviation. You can also see the full citation when you click on the View Draft Notes button in the Notes window, or on the Draft button in the main window. It would then look like this: "Mary Smith was born in 1750 in Dedham...."12 and at the end of the notes would be: 12 Jack Smith, The Smith Family, John Smith and His Descendants for Seven Generations (Boston: Jones Publishing Co., 1911), 452. You can read more about citations in the Reference guide under Basic Data Entry, under Basic Reporting and under the Citations Menu topics. (As noted under Basic Reporting, you can keep different versions of the citations in different files for different purposes.) U.S. federal census citations are handled separately using the Census button in the notes window. Here, each census citation is entered separately in the census form that appears when the button is clicked. Since each census citation is different from any other, it must be entered separately for each citation. See the Basic Data Entry > Notes topic in the Reference guide. Here is an abstract of an 1880 federal census entry for the family of Anson Wilson Root as it would appear in a report: Anson, his second wife Harriet Parmelee and their daughter Alice were enumerated in the 1880 federal census of Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, as follows:6
A. W. Root, white, male, 56, married, running grist mill, born New York, father born New Hampshire, mother born [blank]. Harriet B. Root, white, female, 47, wife, married, keeping house, born Canada, father born Connecticut, mother born Vermont. Alice M. Root, white, female, 17, daughter, single, in school, attended school within the year, born Wisconsin, father born New York, mother born Canada. And here is the census citation in the footnote: 6 A. W. Root household, 1880 U.S. census, Kane County, Illinois, population schedule, Elgin, Dupage [Street], enumeration district 86, supervisor’s district 2, page 26, sheet 350B, line 9, dwelling 220, family 279; National Archives micropublication T9, roll 218. Hope this helps answer your question. Best, Howard
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