A Study on Referencing Style for Online Scholarly Database

• Main Authors: Mong-Lung Tsai, 蔡孟倫
• Other Authors: Jeong-Yeou Chiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59135993422544463704

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊與圖書館學系碩士班 === 96 === The purpose of this study is directed against how to cite documents from online scholarly database, and recounting the importance of references relies on literature review. The use of online scholarly database is frequently in author’s research process; thus, cite documents from database appropriately are worth to analyse. This study adopt literature review and in-depth interview method with scholarly database business and company of personal bibliography management software, knowing the requirements and opinions about this issue, and finally concludes the suggestions. The study’s suggestions as follows： 1. For referencing style (1) For citations to scholarly databases, it should be inclusive of database name. (2) For citations to scholarly databases, including database URLs is not recommended. (3) Citations should not be inclusive of direct URLs of document. (4) When DOI exits, besides DOI, include the database name. (5) Author should follow the Manual of Style, instead of database export function or personal bibliography management software. 2. For Scholarly database Business (1) When construct database, the setting of database fields should be careful, especially name (first name, last name), and date. (2) Check and fix database fields which is already online. 3. For personal bibliography management software company (1) Setting of output styles should be correct (2) The company of personal bibliography management software and scholarly database business should know the relation of database fields and quality of software export result, the former should plays a guard role.