Re: So it is true...


"Richard Herring" <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote ...

>Des Small <vonbladet@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>>"Seán O'Leathlóbhair" <jwlawler@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Des Small wrote:

>>> > You could profitably have given the page numbers, isn't it? (Did you
>>> > study too much physics in your youth or something?)
>>>
>>> Physics up to A level. Why do you ask?
>>
>>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.

I remember that, when I published a few papers in Physics of Fluids and J
Chemical Physics in the seventies and eighties, I used to make sure I
included page numbers all in my references, and they took great pleasure in
removing every one of them. As far as I ever noticed, other publishers I
dealt with (mostly engineering or engineering science) were much less fussy,
and used to leave references the way the author provided them, whether with
or without page numbers.

John.


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