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CMoS, MLA, and Turabian all use the style with which you're familiar.
The American Psychological Association (APA) and some other associations
and disciplines use a different citation style, including the downstyle
titles that you've mentioned here.
Typically, authors who publish across disciplines will use the style
with which they're more familiar, unless the journal or publisher has
specific guidelines that must by applied. I edited a journal article for
my father once (a former pediatrician, now a child psychiatrist). The
journal in which the article appeared had its own unique citation style,
useful perhaps to those in the know, but quite perplexing to the
uninitiated.
Bill Burns | Senior Technical Writer
billdb -at- ile -dot- com| ILE Communications Group
"If the world decided to follow you today, where would you
lead them?" Victor Wooten *What Did He Say?*
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Willebeek-LeMair [SMTP:jlemair -at- ITEXCHSRV2 -dot- PHX -dot- MCD -dot- MOT -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 1997 9:34 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Citations
>
> Has anyone else noticed this? Is it just me? Perhaps my frontal lobe
> is just shrinking.
>
> I was reading the current issue of Technical Communication and finally
> noticed something that has been bothering me. In the editor's blob,
> he
> referred to the journal as "Technical communication" rather than
> "Technical Communication" [note the capitalization].
>
> I went back to Karen Schriver's book, and sure enough, the references
> in
> the bibliography were formatted the same way (sentence caps, such as
> "America by design: Science, technology, and the rise of corporate
> capitalism").
>
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