{"id":1707,"date":"2009-03-20T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/20\/the_space_time_continuum\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:09:23","slug":"the_space_time_continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/20\/the_space_time_continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"The space-time continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently merging several PIs&#8217; publication lists into one document for a grant progress report. I&#8217;m sorting by year of publication and then alphabetically by first author. It&#8217;s really, really fun, although actually not the absolute <em>worst<\/em> thing to do on a Friday afternoon.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a bit of a tight character limit, and I&#8217;m wearing out my backspace key on all the completely unnecessary fluff that some citation formats use. I just need the full author list, title, journal, volume and page numbers, and year. So why do so many formats introduce the following?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>unnecessary punctuation marks. Author name and date should be &#8220;Ennis CA, 2009&#8221; rather than &#8220;Ennis, C. A., (2009)&#8221; and all possible permutations and combinations of intermediate punctuation.<\/li>\n<li>unnecessary use of &#8220;and&#8221; in author lists. Just put a comma before the last author. Those two extra spaces really add up.<\/li>\n<li>full journal names. We all know what the abbreviations mean. And don&#8217;t put spaces between the individual letters of acronyms (it&#8217;s USA, not U S A).<\/li>\n<li>journal issue number. I would bet good money that most people find articles online by author, volume and page, rather than by hunting down individual print issues. I don&#8217;t need to turn 24:345-9 into 24(11):345-9. And what&#8217;s with all the additional numbers and spaces? (24: (11); 345 &#8211; 349, you can bugger right off).<\/li>\n<li>month and day of publication. I just need the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>doi or PubMed ID in citations that already have the volume and page number. WHY??!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is what happens when people prepare their CVs using different Endnote output styles<sup><a href=\"#fn15331101164f04ccbd45983\">1<\/a><\/sup>. (I&#8217;m assuming the typos and duplicated years in some citations are due to human error rather than software glitches). I don&#8217;t have access to the original Endnote libraries, so I&#8217;m in Word, using find and replace wherever possible, and doing the rest manually.<br \/>\nThe attempt to create more space is proceeding slooooooowly. What a waste of time.<br \/>\n\/rant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup> Let&#8217;s not even get into the different order of the citation components, and different italics \/ bold \/ underlining conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently merging several PIs&#8217; publication lists into one document for a grant progress report. I&#8217;m sorting by year of publication and then alphabetically by first author. It&#8217;s really, really fun, although actually not the absolute worst thing to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/03\/20\/the_space_time_continuum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}