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Author Topic: Who authored Kodak Film Notes? Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-17-2006 09:08 AM                    My fiancé is working on a report for school, and is using a couple of the Kodak Film Notes archived on this site for reference material. She'd like to credit them properly in her bibliography. Who is the author of those documents? Would it just be "Kodak"? Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-17-2006 09:45 AM                        Note to moderators: There is a long URL in this post. This is in an example of how to cite web sources in print and not intended as a 'live' link. Hope this is OK. Check the latest edition of the MLA Style Manual for the precise details (mine is at home - don't have it with me). The usual convention for citing a corporate author is basically to list the source in the footnote (or alphabetically in the bibliography) by the name of the corporate entity. Example of a published book or pamphlet with a corporate author: Eastman Kodak Company, Tinting and Toning of Eastman Positive Motion Picture Film (pamphlet), Rochester, Eastman Kodak Company (1927). When citing a web page, the usual convention is to give the full URL and the date on which its content was accessed for the purpose of the research. Example: Moore, Gordon E., 'Cramming more components onto integrated circuits’, Electronics, vol. 38, no. 8 (19 April 1965), republished at ftp://download.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespaper.pdf (accessed by the author on 26 October 2004). There are some grey area issues - for example, how do you cite the work if you know (or have strong evidence to identify) who the author is, but this isn't explicitly stated in the source itself? Different institutions, publishers and style guidelines have different policies here. If one doesn't exist in your particular situation, you might have to devise your own: the only overriding rule is to be consistent, using the same approach throughout your piece of writing.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-20-2006 08:50 AM                    Thanks, Leo.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-20-2006 09:06 PM                     Wasn't John Pytlak editor and sometimes author of Film Notes for the Reel People?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-21-2006 08:58 PM                        Actually, Kodak's Paul Preo was the original editor of "Film Notes for Reel People". Later on, Terri (Smith) Westhafer, Bob Gibbons, and I wrote articles, as well as many guest writers. All my articles had a "byline".  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-23-2006 09:26 AM                    I thought you wrote at least some of the articles, John, but I didn't see your name credited on the ones we picked anywhere. We just wanted to be sure. Thanks, guys. She gave her speach on Friday, and should get her grade today.  |  IP: Logged

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