@marykathleenb86 Thank you so much!
@lizmays I noticed that the note numbers in this chapter (and in other chapters) are often in the middle of a sentence, usually directly following a linked word or phrase. However, the Author Instructions indicate that this text follows the Chicago Manual of Style, which specifies that note numbers be placed at the end of a sentence or clause (14.21). Could you clarify where you want the note numbers placed?
@leanne Hi Leanne, We were loose in how well we followed Chicago for the formatting. For placement I’d like them following the linked words. The reason for this is that this book is available in multiple formats. So if you’re reading the print edition, you don’t get the actual link you can go to from the text, so I think it’s more helpful to attach the footnote to the link for reference in case print-readers want to look it up. While not all footnotes are attached to links, probably 75% are, so this made sense.
@lizmays Thanks, Liz! I thought that might be the case, but I figured it would be best to check.
@lizmays I’ve finished the Pitching Ideas chapter, but I still have to review the endnotes and “From the Field: The Perfect Pitch.” I can look over those tomorrow.
@marykathleenb86 Thanks for letting me know!
@lizmays Hi Liz! I’ll have the “Customer Discovery” chapter for you later today. As I’m finishing up, I would like to clarify the author name format for the endnotes, as it’s one I’m not familiar with. Could you confirm that you would like the notes to read Firstname, Lastname, “Article Title” (with a comma after the first name – as opposed to Firstname Lastname, “Article Title,” or Lastname, Firstname, “Title”)? Thanks!
@leanne Hi Leanne, Great catch–you are correct! Firstname Lastname, not Firstname, Lastname.
@lizmays No problem! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
@lizmays I’ve finished the “Customer Discovery” chapter. All my edits and suggestions are tagged with the annotate feature on Hypothes.is.
I didn’t do the Chapter summary/introduction (https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/customer-discovery-acquisition/), but it just occurred to me that you might have wanted me to do both (my apologies if that’s the case!). I could do it very quickly (since it’s so short, and the “Bio” is same as the one in the main chapter). Just let me know.
@leanne Hi Leanne, thank you so much. I’ll take a look tomorrow and let you know if I have any questions. No need to do that into page, but thank you for offering!
@lizmays Okay!
I’m confused about how we’re formatting our endnotes. I’m looking online (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/05/) and seeing that the general format for citing a web source according to Chicago is this:
Firstname Lastname, “Title of Web Page,” Publishing Organization or Name of Website in Italics, publication date and/or access date if available, URL.
However, I’m looking at other chapter endnotes and they’re not all formatted like this - the endnotes usually include periods. How should they be formatted?
@marykathleenb86 said in Project Summary: Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship:
Firstname Lastname, “Title of Web Page,” Publishing Organization or Name of Website in Italics, publication date and/or access date if available, URL.
Hi @marykathleenb86, Yes, you’re right. At the end of the day, we departed slightly from this. The format that most have, and that I’d like them to have (assuming they’re a web article or resource), is:
Firstname Lastname, “Title of Web Page or Article.” Publishing Organization or Name of Website. publication date if available. URL.
If it’s just a website cited, then:
Website in italics, URL.
We adapted the general style slightly, after looking at a variety of entries in the actual manual. This seemed the best all-purpose format for the citations.
The software itself has some limitations as to what’s a footnote, what’s an endnote, how are links treated in a print edition, etc., that we had to work around. And also, I had to do a lot of the citations myself, quickly, after the fact and this format was most expedient, while still giving students the info they’d need to look up an original reference if they wanted to.
@lizmays Hi Liz, I formatted the endnotes of the “Customer Discovery” chapter slightly differently, according to the directions I was given: First Last, “Title of Article if available.” Place of publication. Date if available. Link. OR Website title, Link. I’m sorry if I misunderstood the directions. I can easily go back and transpose the date of publication and the publishing organization/website name. Just let me know what you would like me to do.
@lizmays I’ve finished looking over the endnotes, so the chapters are ready for your review. Please let me know if you need anything else!
@lizmays I’ll just fix them now. It shouldn’t take more than an hour.
@marykathleenb86 Thank you! Will take a look soon and let you know if I have any questions.
@lizmays Actually, I have a question - are journal/magazine titles supposed to be italicized?
@marykathleenb86 I have found this web page to be very helpful: https://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Department2.aspx?id=46698. I use it as my guide unless house style dictates otherwise. But I’d like to hear what Liz says for this project.
