For articles in Numismatist, who writes the "For Further Information" section-- the author

Longacre · August 29, 2006 12:30AM

I was reading the latest issue of Numismatist. There was an article on the various portraits of indians on gold coins. At the end of the article, there is a always a seciton called "For Further Information..." and it lists a sort of bibliography. For that article, I was shocked that the Burdette Renaissance book was not referenced. RWB did an outstanding job describing the BLP $5 and $2.50 Indian story, but there was no mention of it in the article or in the bibliography. Does anyone know who writes the "For Further Information" sections? Is it the author or the editor of the magazine?

airplanenut · August 29, 2006 12:37AM

It could be the author's bibliography... or, and I hope not, a section of it.

kranky · August 29, 2006 1:13AM

I would think the author does it. The author is probably using the sources he/she has available, and not an exhaustive list.

RWB · August 29, 2006 4:45AM

The author usually provides bibliographic information since they know what books/articles they consulted. For periodical use, authors commonly stick to the sources they used the most. In a book or major research article one tries to list everything that was consulted and from which the author gained information. Some book include both a bibliography and a Further Reading list prepared by the editor or author. Occasionally, editors will add to an article's "Further Reading” list but a lot depends on work load. Ideally, an article would include both a bibliography of sources actually used for the article, and a separate Further Reading list of related material.

Naturally, there is a practical side to space and content. The ANA Journal, sometimes devotes several pages to source citations/end notes/bibliography, but few readers of The Numismatist (sorry, I can’t break the habit of using that article…) would want that.

Hope this was helpful.

howards · August 29, 2006 6:10PM

For the articles I've had published, I wrote the "For further information" section. There is nothing that prevents the ANA from adding (or subtracting) from the author's submission.

For articles in Numismatist, who writes the "For Further Information" section-- the author

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