I like your annotations, which could be very useful! S.A.M. Jane McGary wrote: > I don't really understand the wiki the way Mary Sue and the other > managers of it do, but now that I know how to post pictures and edit the > genus pages, I guess I could work on a References page too. It would not > take as long as uploading pictures does (I live in the country and have > a slow phone connection). When you figure out what you want done, tell > me about it. > > If we limit the references to books (no journal articles) the size > should remain manageable. The basic information needed is author(s) with > FULL NAMES, please (not just initials, you scientists), date of > publication, and full title (including subtitle). It also helps to have > the publisher's name, because some books are published by different > presses in different countries (known as copublication; typical example > is Timber Press in the USA and Batsford in the UK) and the ISBN number, > which is a quick way to order a book. All this information can normally > be found on the reverse of the title page. > > Mary Sue's concern -- " So I'd suggest author and date as Jane > initially proposed as a possibility and hope that some of the more > prolific writers haven't published a lot in the same year" -- is > conventionally addressed by adding letters to the dates, e.g., 1981a, > 1981b. > > I think a BRIEF annotation would be helpful with the entries -- no more > than one sentence, and perhaps not even a full sentence. Examples: > "Standard work on the genus." "Color photos of 500 plants." "In Japanese > with English summary and Latin descriptions." "Outdated but > interesting." "Riddled with errors, but useful for color photos." > > Jane McGary > Northwestern Oregon, USA > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > . >