From owner-cse663-fa06-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Dec 14 19:25:27 2006 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kBF0PQYe027182 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id kBF0PMIF073208 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 19939 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 00:25:22 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 00:25:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 19907 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 00:25:21 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 00:25:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 25139 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 00:25:15 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 00:25:15 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 2368638 for CSE663-FA06-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:15 -0500 Delivered-To: cse663-fa06-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 15498 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 00:25:15 -0000 Received: from mailscan8.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.55) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 00:25:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 13097 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 00:25:14 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 00:25:14 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kBF0PEXT027165 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id kBF0PEGN027164 for cse663-fa06-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:14 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200612150025.kBF0PEGN027164@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:14 -0500 Reply-To: CSE 663 - Advanced Knowledge Representation - Fall 2006 Sender: CSE 663 - Advanced Knowledge Representation - Fall 2006 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: don't cite websites To: CSE663-FA06-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2335/Thu Dec 14 18:15:52 2006 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1092 I've been reading some of your project reports and have come across some non-standard citations that I want to mention to you: Some of you cite the CVA website or the SNePS website. It's perfectly fine to have a footnote somewhere pointing readers to these websites, but a reference list at the end of a professional article should not cite a website, only a publication (in a journal, book, etc.). A minor "exception" to this is that if a paper is unpublished and only appears on someone's website, then you can list that website as you would normally list the publication or publisher of a published paper. One reason for this is that websites are not "archival"; they change too frequently or can disappear. Another is that they are not "peer-reviewed". Granted, my CVA website (which, by the way is mine, not Kibby's (look at who has the copyright to see who the "author" of a website is)) and the SNePS website are "legitimate", but it's often hard to tell about the legitimacy of other websites, whereas published papers at least have the imprimatur of a journal or publisher.