Regular readers of The Immanent Frame may notice a new feature of the site—at the bottom of each post, there is a link that says “[view academic citations].” Should you click this link, you will see a version of the following, customized for each piece:
AMA citation:
Taylor C. Buffered and porous selves. The Immanent Frame. 2008. Available at: http://tif.ssrc.org/2008/09/02/buffered-and-porous-selves/. Accessed September 18, 2008.
APA citation:
Taylor, Charles. (2008). Buffered and porous selves. Retrieved September 18, 2008, from The Immanent Frame Web site: http://tif.ssrc.org/2008/09/02/buffered-and-porous-selves/
Chicago citation:
Taylor, Charles. 2008. Buffered and porous selves. The Immanent Frame. http://tif.ssrc.org/2008/09/02/buffered-and-porous-selves/ (accessed September 18, 2008).
Harvard citation:
Taylor, C 2008, Buffered and porous selves, The Immanent Frame. Retrieved September 18, 2008, from <http://tif.ssrc.org/2008/09/02/buffered-and-porous-selves/>
MLA citation:
Taylor, Charles. “Buffered and porous selves.” 2 Sep. 2008. The Immanent Frame. Accessed 18 Sep. 2008. <http://tif.ssrc.org/2008/09/02/buffered-and-porous-selves/>
As it becomes increasingly common for readers to reference posts at academic blogs like The Immanent Frame in their scholarly papers and presentations, our aim is to ensure that our contributors receive appropriate credit for their ideas and their work. Yet a number of important questions remain. For instance, is an essay posted at a blog likely to be widely recognized as a legitimate piece of academic writing?
We encourage readers to use the comments field below as an open thread for discussion of this question and related issues.
What a great idea! Is this a plug-in that other blogs could use?
For those who are interested in using the academic citations plug-in on their own blogs, please visit academic sandbox for more information from Julie Meloni, the developer of this plug-in.
I think it would be great to have more blog posts that take the form of scholarly notes or mini-essays (say 500-1000 words) and are fully referenced. It’d also be good to see more posts that summarise a scholarly piece or two recently read by the blogger-scholar, again with full refs. Finally, I’ve been thinking aloud lately about a genre that I haven’t yet come across: peer-reviewed blog posts. I don’t have in mind here lengthy peer reviews that take months, but rather reasonably fast turnovers (2-3 weeks) for brief pieces.