Is there a way to cross-reference the unique identifier of an unpublished case available on one electronic database to which you are subscribed (Westlaw, LEXIS, etc.) with its unique cite on one of the other electronic databases to which you are unsubscribed? [more inside]
posted on Oct 10, 2008 - 4 answers

What's all this fuss about bibliography software? [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 15 answers

Any advice on how to cite a YouTube clip in MLA format? Suggestions for both the parenthetical reference and bibliographic citation would be much appreciated. Email here.
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - 4 answers

[Attention-Citation-Officers-Filter]: I am clueless as to the proper way of citing financial documents in the course of my writing. The Chicago Manual of Style has left me high and dry. Hope me! [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 19 answers

On a road trip across the midwestern United States. Out of state driver, small town speed trap. Can I ignore the ticket? and other questions. [more inside]
posted on Jan 3, 2008 - 22 answers

Bibliographic software newbie question: given an enormous backlog of hand-written bibliographies, what's my best bet for producing a database and integrating it with a book manuscript? I'd like to be able to push a button and change citation styles. No arduous data-entry, please. [more inside]
posted on Sep 2, 2007 - 10 answers

How do I cite, in MLA format, a quote that is already in parentheses? [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 10 answers

Help me find a citation engine for my school! [more inside]
posted on May 23, 2007 - 9 answers

According to the new Bluebook (a manual of legal citation), how do you cite to a proxy statement? I only have the Seventeenth Edition handy, but I know there is a new Rule 14.6(e) that explains this in the Eighteenth Edition. I need to figure this out before sundown, so if anyone has their Bluebook near by, would you mind cluing me in?
posted on May 9, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm considering a web project that would be a day-by-day chronicle of a historical period. My primary sources would be 2-3 books that are day-by-day accounts of the period. Can I use the facts from the books if I use my own words? I would list the books as references on the site.
posted on Apr 14, 2007 - 10 answers

Is there a statute of limitations on a red-light camera ticket fine received in California and not paid? [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2007 - 9 answers

I teach graduate writing and research. I'm pretty confident with the way I teach the spirit of citation (it's what we have in the humanities instead of the scientific method), but what draconian pedagogy can I use to soul-crushingly impose format dread on my unruly grad students? [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2006 - 21 answers

How do I cite video/computer games in a research paper? I have the in-text citation done; I just need to know how to do it in the works cited page. I'm using chicago style for the paper, but if you can tell me how to do it in any style, I can convert it.
posted on Oct 23, 2006 - 3 answers

Is there some "Web 2.0" (by which I mean "well designed", not "shiny and in large type for no good reason) style site or package out there for managing bibliographic references online?
posted on Jul 26, 2006 - 19 answers

Where can I find a citation database for OS X (and am I using the right term)? [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2006 - 13 answers

Is there any way to get EndNote -- yes, yes, I know, a steaming pile of rancid bits of a software app -- to correctly cite a website? [more inside]
posted on Dec 6, 2005 - 10 answers

Debating politics with a (conservative) friend last night, we got to talking about the whole "mission acomplished" thing. He has challenged me to come up with a single quote where Bush says anything similar to "Our mission in Iraq has been accomplished" (as opposed to just standing in front of a sign that says it). Can anyone provide such a quote, with a link to back it up?
posted on Sep 30, 2004 - 16 answers

OK...I just got in a car accident yesterday. I'm okay, my car is a little screwed. Some guy switched lanes, and i dodged and hit a concrete median, lost control, and shot back across the highway, hitting the lane switcher. A witness says I was trying to pass him in the left hand turning lane (where there was another car). Being that this is Florida and everybody else was a retiree, I got the ticket. I'm going to fight it on the grounds that I couldn't have been doing what the witness said because ITS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for me to be where the other car was at the time.

My questions: Anybody successfully fight a crash citation? Any pointers? Anybody get a police report amended? I don't know what I'm facing here...and yes, I've already contacted a lawyer. I see them Monday.
posted on Mar 31, 2004 - 13 answers