Showing posts with label American Astronomical Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Astronomical Society. Show all posts

July 29, 2014

Citations Citations Citations!!!



 Every day at the NASA All-Stars Summer program is an adventure!

There is an old saying, 'You learn something new every day." Well, that statement is so true.  Today my colleague Ms Wetzel had a interesting conversation with  NASA All-Stars program director, Dr. Don York, about citations.   During this conversation she learned something very interesting:   Astronomers use their own citation style.  Yes, there is a citation style used specifically by Astronomers!   Interesting right?  After a little research, she found the American Astronomical Society's website and found a guide sheet to assist the students with their citations.

The video below is a short iMovie I created that kind of represents the type of day we had.  It's just for fun!



 By the way, since I'm on the topic of citations, here's a cool article about citing Tweets posted on Twitter I found a couple of months ago:  

'How to Cite Tweets in an Academic Paper'
MLA and APA prepare for the future of the academic citation.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2014/02/how-cite-tweets-academic-paper?utm_content=bufferc1913&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Source Citation
AAS Journal Reference Instructions | American Astronomical Society                                                                                          

http://aas.org/authors/aas-journal-reference-instructions