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From: jdege@ (Jeff Dege)
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Subject: Re: Why city and state in bibliographies?
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Date: 4 Nov 90 16:24:01 GMT
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In article <1990Nov4.093319.16659@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>In article <10314@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
>>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. 
>
>PS: I get a chill at the thought of combing a large university town for a 
>book that was published in that city, although I suppose it could actually 
>be done fairly quickly.  
>
 
    And here I though that the city and state were listed so you could
write to the publisher.  A letter addressed "Addison Wesley, NY, NY"
would probably get delivered (though with the increasing reliance of the
UPS on automation, if you can't draw a legible UPC, your letter could
go anywhere ;) while a letter addressed "Addison Wesly" would be
circular-filed.
 
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