Another change: If "The" is part of a publication's title, don't drop it (as in CMOS 17). Instead, keep it, capitalize it, italicize it: The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post. #ACES2024
Another biggie, regarding capitalization after a colon: If what follows is a complete sentence, cap it! (I think this is reverting back to CMOS 15 or 16, right?) #ACES2024
It's the *italicize* it part that so many writers are skimming over. The "The" popping up in the middle of a sentence all capitalized like that is jarring! #ACES2024
Do researchers search bibliographies by place of pub? I'm curious how this info is used. (We'll still be including publisher name and year of publication.)
Usually two seconds on google. It's an issue with anything self-published, small presses, or anything pre-1850 or so. Two reasons - (1) it may be contextually important, (2) if the publisher is obscure it helps enormously if you're trying to track down a copy or learn more about the author.
Surely I don't have to talk up WorldCat.org? Free database of 1 *billion* items in the libraries of the world? That thing you need to cite probably lives in a library! Who cataloged it with the place of publication! WorldCat will even generate a citation for you in the top citation styles!
Can only speak for myself; I would. An example of why PoP matters. In the 19th c., there was a children's story called "Ten Little [racist epithet]," published all over the place. Omitting PoP undermines the study of the spread of ideas & influences, in this case racist ones.
Which is to say, it matters to me, and probably no one else, that a publisher here in Buffalo released an edition of this noxious book around 1900. This'll sound weird, but including PoP is a subtle form of geographic accountability.
I'm so curious to know how this impacts research. One can still look up where Press X was headquartered in 1948 or whatever—the task is just shifted from copyeditor to researcher. Or is there a broader impact that I'm not seeing? Would truly love to know!
In my case, I work on the history of a topic which had a lot of literature published in both the US and the UK, but I’m primarily focused on the UK, as well as doing some comparative UK/Aus/NZ history. So it’s really helpful for me to be able to look at a citation and see where it was published
It’s not a showstopper, as you say, and the geographical context should be clear from the text anyway. When I’ve tried explaining why I find having place in the citations useful, my peers seem uncomprehending, which I in turn find mystifying. So I accept I’m in the minority on this one!
