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Q: "I probably will have to submit my article to several journals before it is accepted. Each of the ones I am likely to send it to has a different style for footnotes and references. How do I make revisions efficiently and not spend undue hours with trivia?"

A: Richard Hull, TAA Executive Director:
"There are excellent reference management software programs available. You type your references in once; subsequent revisions are often possible by simply giving the periodical's name, or by providing a simple template that will, for example, cause first and middle names to be replaced by initials (followed or not followed by periods), journal volume numbers to be preceded or not preceded by "vol.", the year of the publication to be placed just after the author's name or after the volume number (surrounded or nor surrounded by parentheses), and so forth. End Note and Reference Manager are two common ones, and they are sometimes freely provided to faculty by their educational institution's Instructional Technology centers."

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