Citation examples and recommendations

DELAMAN 2006

Heidi Johnson

Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

General observations

The crucial concern is making sure that readers can locate the cited work.

There are typically two main creators to be acknowledged: the researcher and the speaker.

Often, esp. w/older resources, only the researcher's name is known.

Academics probably want to see their resources listed under their names first.

Questions

Cite by bundle (recording+texts) or by component (recording only)? Different people create different components,

so components may not sort together. Can we dispense with access time&date, on the

grounds that archived resources are permanent? Does it matter what the specific format is?

It might not be wav 100 years from now, but it will still be audio.

Example 1:Researcher first

Sherzer, Joel. (1970.) "Report from a curing specialist." Oluwiktinappi, (Performer.) KUA001R004. Audio+text. Access=public. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: www.ailla.utexas.org.

Example 2:Researcher & speaker together

Sherzer, Joel and Olowiktinappi. (1970). "Report from a curing specialist." KUA001R004. Audio+text. Access=public. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America:www.ailla.utexas.org.

Example 3:List components separately

Speaker first for recordings; researcher first for texts

Oluwiktinappi. (1970.) "Report from a curing specialist." KUA001R004I001.mp3. Audio. [etc.]

Sherzer, Joel. (1970.) "Report from a curing specialist." KUA001R004I001.pdf. Text. [etc.]

Example 4:Speaker first; researcher analogous to

editor of book

Olowiktinappi. (1970). "Report from a curing specialist." Joel Sherzer, (Researcher.) [etc.]

Example 5:Reference to one segment of a multi-part

resource Mattei, Marie-Claude. (1994). "Hodï Word

List." YAU001R003I002.wav. Audio. Part 2 of 5. Access=public. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America:www.ailla.utexas.org.

Example 6:Reference to just the interlinear text

portion of a resource

Johnson, Heidi and Germán Sánchez Morales. (1997). "Satornino y los soldados." ZOH001R011I001.pdf. Interlinear text. Audio available. Access=public. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America:www.ailla.utexas.org.

Citation components I

1. Primary responsibility. The name of the person(s) who have primary responsibility for creating the resource.

2. Date created. Year only.

3. Title

4. Subordinate responsibility. The collector, depositor, project, etc. if relevant and not already in (1).

Citation components II

5. Archive. Full name + web site or address.

6. UID or Catalog number. The identifier used to locate the resource in the collection.

7. Type of resource: Audio, text, video, photo, etc. List all the types in a bundle.

8. Availability and access. Access = public or restricted. (Details can be gotten at the archive if it's restricted.)

Guidelines adapted from:

The International Standards Organization:

www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/index.htm MLA Style Guide FAQ:

www.mla.org/publications/style/style_faq/style_faq4.