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In your "Citing Online Historical Resources" Quicksheet, I saw the model for Historical Records images. The source list entry starts off: "Washington, University of," rather than "University of Washington." If this is covered in EE, I couldn't find it. What are the guidelines for rearranging words?
It appears to me from the model that rearranging is something that one would only do in the source list and not in the reference notes.
What if the author was "The Brown Institute"? Should the source list entry be "The Brown Institute", "Brown Institute, The", or simply "Brown Institute"?
Dennis
Dennis,
Dennis,
Entries in a source list or bibliography follow standard rules for alphabetizing material. "The Brown Institute" would have its full name written exactly in that manner, but it would be placed amid the B's, as though the word "The" wasn't there. Entries such as "State of Washington" or "University of Washington" are typically written as "Washington, State of" or "Washington, University of," for the same reason that a source list would render a personal name as "Smith, John" rather than "John Smith."
For style issues that go beyond citation, an excellent guide is The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Of its 1,026 pages, only 2 chapters deal with source citations (essentially citations to published materials and simple manuscripts). The rest goes into all the nuances of style that EE does not attempt to cover.