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Reference Formatting Layouts

[IT-1] Current Scholarpedia standard: italics is in journal name

Journal article:

• Albero, Antony (1999). Pizza Margherita. Journal of pizza eaters 19(3): 13. arXiv:0808.000

Book chapter:

• Alto, Antony and Bocca, Bill (January 1, 2001). Big Compilation Book With Many Chapters and distinct chapter authors Mangiare bene. Albero editor. Book Publishers, Genoa. Chapter 2: The History Of The Bloggs Family

Book

• Alto, Antony et al. (2005). American Pizza. Food Publishers, Genoa.

Advantages:

1. more standard: as in CMS APA (although not as standard as [IT-3]
2. it is currently being used

[IT-2] Italics for article title

Journal article:

• Albero, Antony (1999). Pizza Margherita. Journal of pizza eaters 19(3): 13. arXiv:0808.000

Book chapter:

• Alto, Antony and Bocca, Bill (January 1, 2001). Chapter 2: The History Of The Bloggs Family. In: Doe, John; Big Compilation Book With Many Chapters and distinct chapter authors. Book Publishers. pp. 100–110. ISBN 1234567890.

Book

• Alto, Antony et al. (2005). American Pizza. Food Publishers, Genoa.

Advantages:

1. Puts more emphasis on the title, which should be more important than the journal (Contested opinion, see Talk).
2. Separates the "title" and the "publication (non-scientific) information", by treating them with a different layout. By "title" I mean authors' contribution, i.e. "title" is the title of the article in a journal, the title of a chapter in a book with many contributors (or the title of a talk in a conference proceedings), and the title of the book if this is entirely written by the same authors. By "publication information" I mean the journal name for an article, and the publisher+town for a book. The title of a book with many chapter contributions, or a conference proceedings, is an hybrid element of the reference, that I propose to leave in italics for simplicity of coding, and also because in some sense it is authored by the editors, hence is itself a "title".
3. Encoding italics in the article title would be a modification comparable to the few other ones we have already made on the original citation/core from wikipedia.

[IT-3] Article title in Quotes

Journal article:

• Albero, Antony (1999). "Pizza Margherita". Journal of pizza eaters 19(3): 13. arXiv:0808.000

Book chapter:

• Alto, Antony and Bocca, Bill (January 1, 2001). "Chapter 2: The History Of The Bloggs Family". in Doe, John. Big Compilation Book With Many Chapters and distinct chapter authors. Book Publishers. pp. 100–110. ISBN 1234567890. 

Book

• Alto, Antony et al. (2005). American Pizza. Genoa: Food Publishers. 

Advantages:

1. most standard : as in CMS APA
2. Most consistent: (debatable?)
   • Articles titles are treated the same as chapter titles
   • Journal names are treated the same as book names
3. Using quotes emphasizes the article titles without making them more difficult to read (using italics can make it slightly more difficult to read for some people)
4. This is what Wikipedia currently uses, which would involve less changes to their citation/core templates

[IT-4] Strict APA style

(needs proofing, probably some mistakes)

Journal article:

• Albero, A.(1999). Pizza Margherita. Journal of pizza eaters, 19(3), 13. arXiv:0808.000

Book chapter:

• Alto, A. and Bocca, B. (2001). Chapter 2: The History Of The Bloggs Family. In J. Doe (Eds.), Big Compilation Book With Many Chapters and distinct chapter authors (pp. 112-123) New York, NY: Book Publishers. pp. 100–110.

Book:

• Alto, A. et al. (2005). American Pizza. Genoa: Food Publishers.

Advantages:

1. It is a standard.