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Anne Davis wondered: <<Can anyone please tell me the proper way to cite
(in the text) or reference (in the bibliography) the name of a CADD
drawing or blueprint (e.g., italics, quotation marks, underline, or
none of the above)? I've checked all the major style guides, including
Gregg and Chicago, but cannot find an example. Such drawings are often
attached to reports but also are stored in public areas (such as a city
survey department) for public use.>>
Where a format isn't already specified in your style guide, it's easy
to create a reference style that's consistent with the rest of your
references if you remember the purpose of such things: to help someone
obtain their own copy.
To achieve that goal, you need to know the following information: who
created the document (the author), the year in which it was created
(because this may be the only distinction between otherwise identical
things like annual reports and may be how the publisher or document
repository files the item), the title of the document, the name and
location of the publisher, and any reference number (including a
version or edition) assigned to the document.
So for a drawing, an example might be the following*:
Davis, A. 2006. Blueprint of CADD system. Publisher, city, state.
Blueprint No. 2006-200, version 2.
* Modified as necessary to reflect your other styles; for example, the
date might come last. If there's no author, use the corporate author,
"Anon.", or the publisher name. If there's no title, a generic title
might be "Blueprint" or [description], with the square brackets meaning
that there is no actual title.
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