Re: So it is true...

Richard Herring <junk@[127.0.0.1]> writes:

> In message <yyrjd5k9ssq7.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Des Small
> <vonbladet@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Physics papers (and applied maths and engineering) only cite to the
> >nearest volume;
>
> ???
>
> I've just looked a random sample of the papers on my desk
> (Trans. IEEE, J. atmos. terr. phys, AGARD conference proceedings,
> Math. Methods in the Physical Sciences, Annales Geophysicae)
> and they all cite other papers down to page number.

Can we swap desks, please?

> > it's a model that doesn't work so well with humanities disciplines
> >or law where knowing which book something is in is usually not
> >enough information.
>
> But giving page numbers for books in developing fields has its own
> problems, since page (and even section) numbers often change from
> edition to edition.

True enough. And I'm still trying to figure out how to bludgeon
BibTeX into giving anywhere near adequate information. (The Open
University managed to claim in my course materials that the Communist
Manifesto was published in the '90s by Penguin.)

Des
gets to use footnotes this year, wuhoo!
.