Citing the FAN Principle and/or QuickSheet About It

By Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 16:10

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Greetings,

I would like to mention and cite the FAN Principle in a grant proposal I'm putting together. I've collected so many references to this principle: a personal conversation with the instructor whose class helped her come up with the term, messages sent to email lists, lectures at conferences, etc. I've pretty much decided to cite the QuickSheet from my personal library, since it's right in front of me.

Is there anything I should add to the First Reference Note citation below? I'm not sure if QuickSheets could be compared to broadsides, pamphlets, and such, but EE 12.42 helped me figure out how to deal with a short, published item that has no pagination. I'm not sure if referring to the exact section of the QuickSheet by subtitle is necessary or not. I don't plan to quote from the QuickSheet in the proposal, just mention the principle and what the acronym stands for, information that is found in the section cited below. 

   Elizabeth Shown Mills, "The Principle," The Historical Biographer's Guide to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle), QuickSheet (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2012), outside panel 1.

Thanks in advance for any input people may wish to provide! 

Madaleine J. Laird

 

Submitted byEEon Thu, 01/03/2013 - 21:50

Madaleine,

You did a great job of figuring it out. The only tinker EE would make would be to include the word QuickSheet in the title. The publication is copyrighted under that word and cataloged that way at WorldCat, etc.

Elizabeth Shown Mills, "The Principle," QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer's Guide to Cluster Research (The FAN Principle) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2012), outside panel 1.

Alternatively, given that "The Principle" is much too short to be considered an article, would be to put "The Principle" at the end of the citation.

Elizabeth Shown Mills, QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer's Guide to Cluster Research (The FAN Principle) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2012), outside panel 1, "The Principle."

Using this approach, in a source list, the pub would be indexed under QuickSheet rather than "The Principle."