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From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
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Subject: Re: Why city and state in bibliographies?
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When I was first taught how to make a bibliography (high school, I
think, which would put it in the mid-sixties), we learned to put
references in the form:

   Bloggins, Wilma. \ital{Hermeneutics, Reductionism, and Bart 
    Simpson}. Somerville, MA: The Paronomastic Press, 1942. 

(Actually, I don't remember being told to use TeX control sequences:-) I
suspect that this is a holdover from the days when documents such as
`Books in Print' were not available, Interlibrary Loan was scanty, and
the best way to get less widely available materials was to go to the
city where they were published, and scour libraries looking for them.

It's probably obsolete, but there may be a number of bibliography styles
which still require it. 
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