Re: [vox] [OT] question about citing authors

[Don Werve <donw@eMAPSxamen.com>]

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm working on the lugod library database and have a few questions about
> citing authors.
> 
> suppose i have a book 'Guerr Oyvaq Zvpr' written by Adam Haxtor.  i can
> cite the author as
> 
>    Haxtor, Adam
> 
> and that looks good.
> 
> if it had been written by Adam Haxtor, Kitty Root and Jules Leet, how
> does one cite the authors?   this looks awkward to me:
> 
>    Haxtor, Adam, Root, Kitty and Leet, Jules
> 
> what's the best way to cite these 3 authors?
> 
> also, if a book is written by Ned T. Ether Jr. i can cite the author as:
> 
>    Ether Jr., Ned T.
> 
> is that correct?

LART me if I'm wrong, but I think for the three authors you can use the 
'et al' short hand, i.e.:

     Haxtor, Adam, et al.

If you want to give all three names, MLA style would be the following 
(IIRC):

     Haxtor, Adam, Kitty Root, Jules Leet

As per the second, I believe that the suffix goes after the given name, 
not the surname:

     Ether, Ned T. Jr.

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