Doing my bibliography is perhaps one of my least favourite things, as is correcting and changing footnotes, but I figure I should start updating my bibliography with stuff from my current chapter and wow even without doing this under pressure like I have in the past 1/
it still feels incredibly tedious. And before anyone suggests citation software, that ship has sailed and it would take longer to learn how that works and get it to fit the style I need (plus the problems they often present when you convert to PDFs) 2/
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so I am doing them manually and it is frustrating. What is also frustrating is the lack of guidance on this. I don't blame my supervisors because I think they assumed that we were taught this but as a Canadian student used to Chicago style 3/
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then moving to Ireland where I was not informed as to what citation style was needed (IHS), which is for the record not well-documented and has no guidance for bibliographies at all, it is incredibly frustrating to find out last year that I need to change my citation style 4/
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I am of the opinion that if it is consistent then it shouldn't be a problem, but if they want a certain style then it should be provided by the department. My department at my undergrad uni had a citation guide. Histories and humanities at TCD need the same for postgrads. 5/
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I do know that undergrads get one but the last time I checked it wasn't that thorough. It's fine for undergrads who are writing papers that are 2k words ish and they use very few sources. But I wasn't an undergrad here. We didn't get any guidance in the MPhil 6/
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and my supervisor for the MPhil didn't say anything about my footnotes or citation style so I assumed that it was fine and kept using what I was using for the PhD. No comments were made on it for my reviews for year 1 or 2. 7/
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So now having to go through my footnotes to change them and not knowing what to do for my bibliography is stressful. I'm having to crowdsource what the other PhDs are doing as well and I get a variety of answers from them. 8/
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