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Chicago Gang Rise Up (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

cries in ABNT format

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is apa the one that makes you cite things in parentheses? because that one gets a thumbs down from me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's perfectly cromulent. C'mon. (Me, 2024)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I can confirm your observations (Me et al., 2024)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I find the lack of IEEE format in this comment section disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

there are dozen of us!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Take this propaganda meme back to your English major puppet masters, everyone knows APA is the superior and only true format.

... Unless the journal I'm publishing in says otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

LaTeX gang

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Biber rise up!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

APA is where it's at tho...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Agreed, APA is the most sensible and straightforward generally.

I will always have a soft spot for Turrabian though since it was what my undergraduate history dept used and I lived it when I was writing my thesis.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Currently preparing to write my Bachelor thesis, the format and template I need to use were last revised in 2009, I am going to lose all joy while writing, I can already tell

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Zotero

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sourcing isn't even the problem, just having to reformat everything all the time because Word (which I have to use) is a bitch is the annoying part

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I write in markdown then convert everything after all edits. Microsoft Office is a bloated nightmare that drives me closer to plain textfiles every day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yup, I installed Zotero and never thought about formatting citations again. Freed up more time to ~~do research~~ browse Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

Style formats are SO undergrad, lol.

Except citations where it's an obscure style that no widget knows by default.

Nerd geologist discussion about GSA style below. Scroll if you don't care. Or just scroll and let me yammer into the void.

Did anybody else notice they changed the GSA citation style guidelines recently? I checked the link today and it was blue and I was like, what? I go to this website 500 times a year. They changed a bunch of stuff, what I noticed was they require co-lead scientists to be listed in the citation even when there are 15 coauthors and it should get an et al. They also say absolutely NO personal communications and NO unpublished works (not even in progress/ in publication/ etc.).

I get where they're coming from but this is problematic in a community where a lot of knowledge is bound up in unpublished projects by the Old Guard who never quite seem to get around to it. I mean, sure, they'll go out in the field with you and tell you everything they saw before and discuss things with you but the best you have is "personal communication with this expert who has been working in this area or formation for 52 years".

Weird, man.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Drink enough Malort and MLA format starts making sense