Consultant reports and web pages as citable resources-- or not

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Barry Roth wrote:
>
> I would like to know Taxacomers' opinions as to whether (a) consultant reports, and (b) web pages, are acceptable for inclusion in the Literature Cited sections and formal synonymies of published research papers.

* the Canadian Field-Naturalist lists 'literature cited' and 'documents
cited' separately, flagging the citations to the non-published documents
by an asterisk. This preserves authors' freedom to cite them, while
warning the reader that they're a different class of beast.

fred.
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