Word in book title different from its bibliographic entry; publisher is author/editor/compiler

By Anonymous on Sun, 09/11/2016 - 05:37

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I have two issues forming a citation for the following book: https://archive.org/details/historyofhenryco00unse

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Full book title from title page:

History of Henry County, Indiana : Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History.

From bibliographic entries on archive.org, books.google.com, and worldcat.org, the word "Embodying" is listed as "Embracing," even though the image it references does say "Embodying."

Interestingly, Familysearch.org and Ancestry.com got it right.

I am using the version from Archive.org. Is there some way to (or do I need to) notate that the actual title is different than the cataloged title? We covered this topic (catalog vs. title page) in a previous of my posts. I suspect that I should use the title from the title page.

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Second issue, same book:

No author given in the book or in any catalog entries. The preface makes it clear that the publishers are the authors/editors/compilers/whateverers.

Publisher information is Chicago : Inter-State Publishing Co., 1884.

I dug around in the EE book and in this forum and could not find an exact example, but based on my current knowledge, I am inclined to just leave the author completely blank and use a bibliographic listing such as this [bold emphasis in title mine]:

History of Henry County, Indiana : Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History. Chicago : Inter-State Publishing Co., 1884. Digital images. Internet Archive. http://archive.org : 2016.

Long note:

1. History of Henry County, Indiana : Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, (Chicago : Inter-State Publishing Co., 1884), 887; Internet Archive (http://archive.org : accessed 10 September 2016).

Short note:

12. History of Henry County, Indiana : Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, 887.

Submitted byEEon Sun, 09/11/2016 - 08:46

eevande, isn't it amazing (or frustrating!) the number of issues a "just plain book" can raise?

Issue 1:

To quote from EE 12.1's discussion of "Title of Book": "Copy exactly from the title page, not the cover or the spine." This injunction to "copy exactly from the title page," rather than variances we find elsewhere, also applies to card catalogs. What is stated on the title page is the official title under which we will find that book in libraries everywhere. That's also the title under which the book should appear in the catalog of the Library of Congress.

When an online provider of digitized images or OCR'd copies makes a typo or a misidentification, then we cite the book correctly with an added note that the provider has altered the name and that it will be found in that provider's database as "Whatever ..." (This is the same principle we apply when, say, we are consulting census images online and the provider's database entry renders a person's name wrong.)

Issue 2:

At EE 12.14 you will find an example for a mugbook whose situation is identical to the one you used.  EE 12.11 and 12.12 also deal with "Author Unidentified" and "Author Unknown."  Considering the length of the title in the mugbook you are citing, you might also be interested in 12.58 "Titles: Overlong."

Submitted byeevandeon Fri, 09/23/2016 - 20:27

Thank you. I finally purchased EE 3rd ed. in electronic format for easy searching (and lifting). :)

I would like to make my bibliographic entry the full title, my first reference note a shortened with ellipses title, and my subsequent notes simply shortened at a logical stopping point.

In this first note, I am cutting out part in the middle AND part at the end of the title. Is there something special I should do with the second ellipsis points? Should it simply end with a period, or the ellipses and then a period (as I learned in school and as I show here)?

1. History of Henry County, Indiana : Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens ... . (Chicago : Inter-State Publishing Co., 1884), 887; Internet Archive (http://archive.org : accessed 10 September 2016).

Subsequent note:

11. History of Henry County, Indiana : Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns, 887.

eevande, you ask whether the ellipsis should "simply end with a period, or the ellipses and then a period" as learned in school.

The basic rule for the 3-dot ellipsis plus period is this:

When quoted material is presented as multiple sentences, four dots should be used for omissions between two or more original sentences; three dots should be used for omissions within a single original sentence. (http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/ellipses.html)

In a reference note, we use a single sentence to cite a source. In that process of citing a single source, we do not insert internal periods because a period means "end of sentence"—which, in citation-language, means "end of my information on this source."