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/
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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Really? There’s a required citation style? I’ve been telling ppl that any widely recognized style is OK. Guess I’d better check on that.
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Replying to @rmkarras @AdmiralHip
Handbook says: “In consultation with your supervisor, decide what conventions you will follow in preparing your work, and apply these from the start.” Where did you see rule about IHS? I mean, if we want that it should for sure be written in handbook.
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Replying to @rmkarras
Only what the other PhDs were told, and what I heard from Immo.
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But yeah this seems to just be communicated via word of mouth. It is however also the standard at other Irish universities for the history departments.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I guess since none of my students (except as co-supervised by Immo) are doing Irish history, IHS is less critical
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