[nabs-l] Citations

[Karl Martin Adam]

I also hate footnotes and use a citation style like Chicago 
reference list, MLA, or APA whenever I have the choice.  One of 
my majors is history though, which requires notes.  If I can get 
permission to do so, I use endnotes because they're completely 
accessible (just start a new page and write them into the body of 
the paper) , but if I have to use footnotes, I write them before 
the bibliography as endnotes and then get a sited person to put 
them into the paper either fitting them on the bottoms of the 
pages or using Word.  Be careful if you use Word or have someone 
else do it for you though because it's default settings for how 
footnotes appear often don't match the citation style you're 
using.  (For instance, it tries to delete the period after the 
number in the note itself, and I think it also superscripts the 
numbers in the note even though they usually aren't supposed to 
be.)  One trick I use is to put asterisks instead of numbers 
until the final draft of the paper so I don't have to renumber 
things if I add or delete a note somewhere in the middle of the 
paper.

As for remembering the different citation styles, there really 
isn't anything for it but memorization.  Basically you just need 
to know the format for books and the format for journal articles, 
and for you legal cases of course.  Before I knew the patterns by 
heart, I would flip back and forth from my citations to the 
Turabian guide to double check that I was following the rules, 
and unfortunately I don't know of any other way to do it whether 
your blind or sited.

Best,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Arielle Silverman via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>, National Association 
of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:17:55 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Citations

Hi Rahul,
Is it possible to use APA format for citations? APA format puts 
the
citations in parentheses rather than footnotes, and the 
bibliography
is at the end of the paper, so it's much more JAWS-friendly. Many 
of
my professors allowed us to cite in the format of our choice,
including APA. But law may have a specialized format.
I agree that footnotes are tough to navigate, and I would suggest
putting all your citations in the body of a document and having a
sighted reader move them to the footnotes.
Best,
Arielle

On 9/28/14, Rahul Bajaj via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Hi all,

 I hope this message finds you well.  As a law student, I am 
required to
 write multiple research papers every semester.I sometimes find 
it hard  to
 cite sources correctly in  my research papers. Citing cases is 
not
 difficult, but I struggle with news articles, research papers in 
journals,
 etc. Even though I have repeatedly gone through the blue book, I 
haven't
 been able to fully internalize the myriad citation formats.
 This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that JAWS acts 
in a very
 sluggish and unresponsive manner when you try to access or 
modify
 footnotes, so this makes the experience all the more unpleasant.
 The upshot of this problem is that my research papers usually 
contain very
 few footnotes- nothing more than fifteen or twenty. As you can 
imagine,
 this greatly reduces the quality and veracity of the paper.
 I would love to know what strategies you guys employ for 
grappling with
 this issue.

 Best,
 Rahul

 Sent from my iPhone

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