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

[Robin Leech]

For Literature Cited, read References.
If an article is cited in the References, then it is understood to be
cited in the text, and vice versa.

If a consultant's report is readily available (e.g., in a government
library,
university library, etc.) for all, then it can be cited in the normal course
of the alphabetical order of the citations in References.  I do not think
that the veracity of the included information should be challenged
simply because it is in a consultant's report.   As we all know, there
are many faulty publications in refereed journals.

If citing web pages, then give the location, day and time of day for the
citing, as web pages change fairly often.

Might be a good idea to make a printed copy of the web page to be
able to hand out to someone in the event of a challenge (then a FAX
or mailing of a copy can be made).

Robin Leech

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb at ISTAR.CA>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Consultant reports and web pages as citable resources-- or not


> 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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