[Tutor] Picking up citations

Marc Tompkins marc.tompkins at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 22:37:04 CET 2009


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

>
> It is correct except for the inclusion of "In" in the name and the
> extra space before the comma separating the page numbers in the last
> citation.
>

As I've been reading along, I've been thinking that the word "In" qualifies
as a "magic word" - it's extremely unlikely to be part of a name, but also
extremely likely to occur just before a citation, so maybe it deserves a
rule of its own.  I know we don't like magic numbers, and magic words aren't
much better - but this seems like a good place to make an exception.

Maybe, to make it more palatable, create a list of "magic words" (initially,
"In" would be the only member)?

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