Many of my own research reports at my personal website Historical Pathways do not use shortened citations because online users frequently grab one page that is of interest to them and then would not have the full citations they need to understand or verify the information I've provided. Today, when much work is published electronically, researchers and writers may decide not to use them. "Shortened" citations are traditional in published works, as a space-saving measure. Also, when we gather an image for our research files, the citation we attach to the image will be in full reference note format.īeyond that, when genealogists decide to produce a biographical sketch of a person or an article or a book, footnotes or endnotes will still be the format they use. When we assert a fact-whether in our working database or a piece of writing-we are expected to attach a reference note to that individual assertion, providing evidence for that assertion. You may then decide what is necessary for you.Īlmost all documentation that historical researchers record (including family historians) is done as footnotes or endnotes. With regard to your last question, let's look at those three formats.
For help with that, you need to join a forum that focuses specifically on your software.
What we cannot do is give you advice on how to use this-or-that genealogical software. We'd be delighted to help you with any part of citation or evidence analysis whose coverage in EE (the book) is not clear to you, or on any type of document that EE does not cover.