Henige D. "Discouraging verification: Citation practices across the disciplines" Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37(2): 99-118, January 2006.

[Eugene Garfield]

As an advocate for standardized  documentation for fifty years.. I thought
the following paper by David Henige would be of interest to SIG-Metrics
readers.

In this connection see my essay on

“Pageless Documentation: or, What a Difference a Page Makes”
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p160y1985.pdf

which includes a reprint of

“The Implications of Pageless Documentation”   by Roy P. Fairfield
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p162y1985.pdf

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David Henige : e-mail : dhenige at library.wisc.edu

AUTHOR : Henige, David

TITLE  : Discouraging verification: Citation practices across the
disciplines

SOURCE: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37(2): 99-118, January 2006.
University of Toronto Press Inc. Toronto

Cited References: 40      Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
The purpose of reference notes in scholarly writing is to provide readers
with the opportunity to learn more about an issue or to test an author's
credibility. As such, they need to include whatever details are necessary
to ensure that access be maximally efficient. These data should always
include page numbers for both quotes and close paraphrases. Unfortunately,
this practice is remarkably uncommon in the sciences and even the social
sciences. Failure to include these data is also a failure of good
epistemological practice.

In the mathematically-predictive hard sciences, citation is usually 2
viewed as a necessary evil(2).

When I failed to locate the cited proposition, I read the book again. Still
unable to find it, I tracked down the author and begged her to give me the
page numbers. With apologies, she admitted that what I sought was not in
the book(3).

Which system is selected by an editor or publisher should be determined by
judgments on its advantages and disadvantages for the expected readership
(4).

Publisher: UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, JOURNALS DIVISION, 5201 DUFFERIN ST,
DOWNSVIEW, TORONTO, ON M3H 5T8, CANADA

IDS Number: 014AD      ISSN: 1198-9742


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