The Review Club Forum Proper way to reference a fict..

Originally posted by C C Holtman
And, Anthony, I could tell you how to use Bluebook style (which is the most standard legal citation form)... but it'll make you crazy, and is probably not necessary for you to be that strict in fiction.

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Originally posted by Anthony
In Baton Cramoisi, I'll be quoting fictitious books, news paper articles, testimonies, and maybe a few letters. They are all made up of course.

This is an example:

From the sworn testimony of William Harrison, taken before The Louisiana State Investigatory Commission in connection with the burning of Baton Cramoisi -- April 9th and 10th of 2007 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (the following abridged version is from Forty worst engineering disasters: Chapter thirteen Firetrap, Barnaby Publishing, New York, 2010):

Now this is what I have which is a little too close to Carrie, which inspired the idea. However, I was wondering if it is the standard way to write out something like that and maybe I shouldn't worry about it. Anyways if any of you law people/journalists know of the correct wording in citing information I'd appreciate it. Maybe a couple of examples :)

Originally posted by Cdnsurfer


Standard citation for a source from a book: Author, Name of Book, Chapter (Publication City: Publication, Year), pages. So, Thomson, R. H. (ed.), Forty Worst Engineering Disasters, Chp. 13: Firetrap (New York: Barnaby, 2010), pp. 213-232.

But what you are talking about is transcripts and any good researcher will tell you to go to the actual document, instead of the excerpts from the Collected Book. In that case, the transcripts themselves would be cited as:

Testimony (or Examination) of William Harrison, "The Louisiana State Investigatory Commission into the Baton Cramoisi Fire," (unpublished, Baton Rouge, LA, April 9-10, 2007), pp. 123, 128-45, 203-213 and 215-217.

Hope that helps.