oh for crying out loud!
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transposable_elementAPA style requires that citations of articles from journals that are continuously paginated (rather than paginated by issue) not include the issue number.
Seriously.
This is idiotic. Having the issue number in the citation doesn't harm anything and may in fact be useful. And checking each journal's pagination (which may have changed at some point since the cited article was published!) is a completely unnecessary piece of drudgery to inflict upon a researcher.
To judge by the comments here, I am not the only person to think so.
Seriously.
This is idiotic. Having the issue number in the citation doesn't harm anything and may in fact be useful. And checking each journal's pagination (which may have changed at some point since the cited article was published!) is a completely unnecessary piece of drudgery to inflict upon a researcher.
To judge by the comments here, I am not the only person to think so.
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Date: 2015-09-08 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-09 04:00 pm (UTC)I wouldn't have minded the work so much if I'd thought it was making the bibliography more useful. But issue numbers are helpful for finding an article even if they're not strictly necessary because of continuous pagination. Sigh.
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Date: 2015-09-10 08:43 am (UTC)