Library Philosophy and Practice Editorial Board

This is a blog for the editors and editorial board of the journal Library Philosophy and Practice

Monday, February 26, 2007

Citation style

I would like to follow up on the suggestion that we adopt a particular citation style (or offer a couple of options to authors.) I'm most familiar with APA, and many authors use that style. MLA is the style I prefer personally, because I think it's useful to include complete first names for authors.

I would like to revise the instructions for authors and ask them to use APA or MLA. I will also ask them to include an abstract, because we need one, and most authors are not supplying one, although quite a few do.

Thoughts on citation style? I'm happy to go with the will of the group on this one.