IWG Wiki Referencing Protocol

Contributors: E. Keats Webb, Wendy Rose, Leah Humenuck

Why do we reference?

The Imaging Wiki, developed on the AIC Wiki platform, is an ongoing community project aimed to provide a free, user-friendly, online imaging resource for cultural heritage conservation. As a community-based project, the references included in the Wiki aim to expand and diversify resources. This includes formal resources, such as books and journal articles, and more informal resources, such as YouTube videos and blog posts. The creative references cited by the wiki contributors reflect the dynamic nature of this community platform.  

Contributors: E. Keats Webb, Wendy Rose, Leah Humenuck

How to Reference

The updated Wiki provides the ability to include superscript citation links in text, similar to Wikipedia. Cite all references using an in text citation ( Last name Year), full reference list at the end of the page, and superscript citation.

The IWG Wiki uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., Author-Date system

In text citation examples

One author: (Smith 1999)

One author, two publications: (Smith 1999, 2002)

One author, two publications same year: (Pratt 1992a, b)

Two authors: (Singh and Butcher 1990)

Three authors: (Keng, Lin, and Orazem 2017, 9-10)

Four or more authors: (Forian et al. 1992)

Multiple sources: (Thomson 1987; Jones 1999; Smith 1999) - list them chronologically

Social media: (@ConanOBrien, April 22, 2015)

Page numbers: (Smith 1999, 49)

Include page numbers in text citations only when meaningful, ie. with direct quotations, or when paraphrasing from a long work in which the concept is not immediately accessible to the reader.

Full reference examples

Book

Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Chapter of edited book

Kushel, Dan. 2017. “Photographic Techniques for Conservation.” In: Warda, J (ed.) The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works, 109-171.

Journal article

Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

News or magazine article

Manjoo, Farhad. 2017. “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera.” New York Times, March 8, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap-makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the-camera.html.

Thesis or dissertation

Rutz, Cynthia Lillian. 2013. “King Lear and Its Folktale Analogues.” PhD diss., University of Chicago.

Webpage

Cyclododecane. 2014. CAMEO (Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Accessed September 7, 2014. http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Cyclododecane.

Social media

Chicago Manual of Style. 2015. “Is the world ready for singular they? We thought so back in 1993.” Facebook, April 17, 2015. https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoManual/posts/10152906193679151.

Blog

Nizza, Mike. 2008. “Go Ahead, Annoy Away, an Australian Court Says.” The Lede (blog). New York Times. July 15. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/.

YouTube video

de Blasio, Bill. “Mayor de Blasio Delivers State of the City Address.” NYC Mayor’s Office. Streamed live on January 10, 2019. YouTube video, 1:22:40. https://youtu.be/aZZYlpfZ-iA.

Unpublished/White papers

Deal, Ashley. 2009. “Collaboration Tools.” Teaching with Technology Whitepaper. Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University, January 23. http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/technology/whitepapers /CollaborationTools_Jan09.pdf.

Creating the superscript

Edit the page using ‘Edit’ (not ‘Edit source’). Click ‘Cite’ and ‘Basic’. Paste the correctly formatted full reference into the field and click ‘Insert’.

Referencing the AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation

The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation is an essential resource for conservation imaging. This guide was AIC’s first effort to compile imaging information for the conservation community, and it is a critical foundation our work. The Imaging Wiki is not intended to recreate this guide, but instead to build upon it. We encourage referencing and quoting of The AIC Guide and have included recommendations below. These recommendations are subject to change.

• To maintain consistent section numbers and page numbers across the Imaging Wiki, only reference the most current version of The AIC Guide (3rd edition published in 2017).
• When quoting or referencing content, reference using the "Chapter of edited book" format, citing the author(s) of the chapter and then the editors as follows:

Example:

Kushel, Dan. 2017. “Photographic Techniques for Conservation.” In: Warda, J (ed.) The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works, 109-171.