ASSISTANCE, please

[Captain.Sassy]

Hey!

Since JREF is swarming with academics and people who have degrees etc., and since my question relates to my own ongoing education, I figured the Education forum of JREF would be the best place to ask this question. Mods feel free to move as needed but please don't delete.

Anyways, I'm writing up a paper here and I need to use the chicago citation style. That's hunky dory, but I don't know how I should cite a codebook for a dataset. The codebook is available online.

http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/inscr.htm

The data set is Coups D'etat, 1946-2009, about 2/3 of the way down the page.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Your pal,

And eternal admirer of (though seldom poster in) the Education forum,

Captain.Sassy

[Jeff Corey]

Why don't you contact them? ". Use of any of these resources in published work must provide proper citation. Reproduction or redistribution of these resources, or substantial portions thereof, is prohibited without prior, written permission from the Center for Systemic Peace (contact information is provided on the CSP Home Page...)

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Why don't you contact them? ". Use of any of these resources in published work must provide proper citation. Reproduction or redistribution of these resources, or substantial portions thereof, is prohibited without prior, written permission from the Center for Systemic Peace (contact information is provided on the CSP Home Page...)

Nice answer . . . to the wrong question. :D

I think the answer may actually provide here:

http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/Chicago/website

:th:

[LashL]

Using the link that Gord provided and looking at the paper you want to cite, I'd suggest that it would cited in the Chicago style as follows:

Marshall, Monty G., and Donna Ramsay Marshall. "Coup d'etat Events, 1946-2009 Codebook." Systemicpeace.org. http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/CSPCoupsCodebook2009.pdf (retrieved August 3, 2011).

Or something like that anyway.

[Captain.Sassy]

Thanks for the help guys.

For some reason I couldn't access the cite to see your helpful answers, but I more or less did what you suggested (i.e. cited it as a website). I think there are different rules for databases, and so I assumed there are also different rules for database codebooks. If my advisor isn't happy well then, whatever. That's what multiple drafts are for. :P

Cheers,

CS

[TX50]

I hope your paper will have a more informative title than this thread does. :rolleyes:

¨Help required with Chicago style citation¨?