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[RESOLVED] Academic (APA5) referencing in a webpage

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Feb 04.2010

Given an in-line citation such as (McConnell, 2002) in an academic/scientific paper, the bibliographic reference might be:
McConnell, S. (July, 2002) [U]The Business of Software Improvement[/U]. [I]IEEE Software[/I] pp. 5-7

This leaves a problem for someone using HTML 4.01 Strict. We don’t have an underline anymore. I have been trying to figure out a way to use Validated CSS to format something like this, where the font face changes within the [I]‘sentence’[/I]. Trying – without success.

Can anyone help?
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@FangFeb 04.2010 — Use css{text-decoration:underline}
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@rickduleyauthorFeb 04.2010 — Thanks Fang

I was aware of that technique, but what puzzles me is how to apply it to one part of a 'sentence'. Remember:

McConnell, S. (July, 2002) [U]The Business of Software Improvement[/U]. [I]IEEE Software[/I] pp. 5-7

One part of the line is itallic, another part underlined and the rest normal face. If one creates a div to underline text, how is it applied to a small part of the larger line?
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@kiwibritFeb 04.2010 — <i>
</i>McConnell, S. (July, 2002)&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline"&gt; The Business of Software Improvement&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;em&gt;IEEE Software pp. 5-7&lt;/em&gt;


You could call up a class in your <span> of course.
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@rickduleyauthorFeb 04.2010 — I agree, mate. That would solve the problem but spanning like that is just a complicated way to replace the deprecated <u></u> tags. If W3C decided to move the responsibility for presentation to the CSS then there must be a way to use CSS to solve the problem this reference presents. And I am happy to go along with using CSS.

It's just that I cannot figure out the way to use it.
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@FangFeb 04.2010 — If you use semantic markup, problem solved:&lt;p&gt;McConnell, S. (July, 2002) &lt;a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/articleSale/Sarticle.jsp?arnumber=1020278"&gt;The Business of Software Improvement&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;cite&gt;&lt;acronym title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"&gt;IEEE&lt;/acronym&gt; Software pp. 5-7&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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@kiwibritFeb 04.2010 — I thought the OP did not want a hyperlink. <em> seems perfectly correct semantically to me. And as a pedant I would use abbr rather than acronym in conjunction with IEEE (if I felt a visitor with a screen reader would benefit) but I won't fight you over it. ?

[url=http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_abbreviation_and_acronym]Acronyms and abbreviations[/url]
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@FangFeb 04.2010 — Acronyms and abbreviationsThe term acronym is widely used to describe any abbreviation formed from initial letters[/QUOTE]Acronym is a specific type of abbreviation.
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@kiwibritFeb 04.2010 — Acronyms and abbreviationsAcronym is a specific type of abbreviation.[/QUOTE]

It surely is. According to my seventh edition Pocket Oxford dictionary I keep in the office, 'acronym' means a word formed with the initial letters of other words such as 'NATO' land 'laser'. You don't say IEEE like that - so it is just an abbreviation. All that said, my dictionary was published way back in 1984. Moreover, since I live in England, I suspect we are two forum members separated by a common language (if your English education was American English).

I see that in HTML5 it is proposed that [url=http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/abbr.html]abbr will be used for both an abbreviation and an acronym[/url] - I gather acronym as an element tag will be dropped.
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@rickduleyauthorFeb 04.2010 — Getting back to the original problem of representing

McConnell, S. (July, 2002) [U]The Business of Software Improvement[/U]. [I]IEEE Software[/I] pp. 5-7

in valid HTML, I becomes obvious that the only solution is KIWIBRITs first suggestion

[CODE]<span style="text-decoration:underline"> The Business of Software Improvement</span>. [/CODE]

with the attendant extra typing. Perhaps the folk toiling away to bring us HTML 5 will take note that there is a valid case for <u></u> even though it is a presentation issue.

That, I might add, brings us to the question, [I]"If <u></u> is to be deprecated because it is presentation rather than content oriented, why did <b></b> and <i></i> survive?"[/I]??
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@kiwibritFeb 05.2010 — Can't argue with that. For the life of me, I can't see why <embed> is deprecated, either, or for that matter, target="_blank" (which needs Javascript to get round in valid strict html if you really want to open up a separate window/tab).
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