#ironic that citations are supposed to make sources clear and obvious. and yet ...

[culmaer]

@culmaer : #harvard #which is other but I'd've assumed an American like op would be familiar with it #citation #poll #in text citations #footnotes are for commentary @phoenixyfriend [OP, in the notes] : @culmaer nope, Harvard style is a very British thing. I'd heard of it, but it wasn't on any lists I used to make the poll so I didn't remember it in time to include it. Turns out it's just not a thing in the US; even Harvard University's library website says "we are not associated with that style and we will not help you cite with it, look it up online yourself."

oh, huh... well that's surprising ! I'd just assumed... and since Harvard is in the US, y'know... oké. well

on doing some further (yet superficial) reading, apparently the in-text "author, year"-in-parentheses referencing style has it's origin with E.L. Mark, a professor of zoölogy/anatomy at Harvard in the 1880s, but the style wasn't commissioned or adopted or promoted by Harvard University as a Whole. so although my instinct is to say that calling it "the Harvard system" is misleading, I guess it is technically a correct attribution

In honor of hbomberguy's video...

I've found a youtube response to the hbomberguy video that isn't just content hunting/recuts! And doesn't seem to be a planned thing like Todd!

Mostly because this is an academic using the hbomberguy video as a jumping off point to talk to the camera, with few edits, about how to cite your sources.

Don't Be Like James Somerton: Advice on Citations and Plagiarism by Archaeology Tube

This is a very reasonable kind of thing to see a day or two after a big story hits. Not edited in a way that's super intensive, and clearly a lecture--too happy to be a rant, honestly--that the person has locked and loaded and has obviously thought about a lot... presumably because, as an academic, it's kind of super necessary.