History 3605: “FOOTNOTE BOOT CAMP” Professor McDonald Spring 2012 Feb. 16, 2012 Problem #1: 1st Citation Format Option 1: David Northrup (ed.), The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Boston: Wadsworth, 2011), p. XX. Option 2: Herbert Klein, “Profits and Losses,” in The Transatlantic Slave Trade ed. David Northrup, (Boston: Wadsworth, 2011), p. XX. Figures based on McCusker and Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789, 54. How did the class do?: • Correct: 7 • Incorrect: 15 • One still outstanding: 1 What did I get instead: • Herbert S. Klein, “Economic Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade,” in The Rise of the Merchant Empire, edited by James D. Tracy, 1990, pp. 287, 299, 303-308. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Profits and Losses Pg 91 What I got continued….. • Klein, Herbert, “Profits and Losses,” in The Atlantic Slave Trade, ed. David Northrup, (Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2011), p. 77. • Herbert S. Klein, “Profits and Losses,” from The Atlantic Slave Trade, ed. by David Northrup, 2011, pp. 76-81. • David Northrup (ed.), The Atlantic Save Trade (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), p. 77. Problem #: 2nd Citation Format Option 1: Northrup, Atlantic Slave Trade, p. 88. Option 2: Klein, “Profits and Losses,” p. 88. How did the class do? Correct: 5 Incorrect: 17 One still outstanding: 1 What I got instead…… Northrup, David. The Atlantic Slave Trade. (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2002), 77. David Northrup (ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, p. 76. Herbert Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, 79 What I got continued…. Klein, “Profits and Losses” pages 77-78 David, Northrup. The Atlantic Slave Trade 3rd Ed. P. 78 Id 76 Problem #3: Citing the Database (the first time) “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages,” Emory University, accessed 1 February 2012, http://www.slavevoyages.org/ tast/ assessment/estimates.faces. • Or the second variation that included a last modified date…. . Figures based on Philip Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (Madison, 1969), 268 • Or Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Database…as the name What I got instead… Emory University. “Voyages”. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. 10 Feb. 2012 www.slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/estimat es.faces Voyages Database 2009. Voyages: The TransAtlantic Slave Database. http://www.slavevoyages.org “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Database: Voyages.” Emory University 2009. Most interesting of all…. • Seven (yes, that’s 7) of you did not have a footnote for the TransAtlantic Slave Database at all. • Pray tell, was it not one of your sources? Problem #4:Second time you cite the database “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages.” What I got instead…. • The Trans-Atlantic Slave Database • Slave Database • Database • Voyages What to do now!?! David Northrup (ed.), The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Boston: Wadsworth, 2011), p. XX. OR Herbert Klein, “Profits and Losses,” in The Transatlantic Slave Trade ed. David Northrup, (Boston: Wadsworth, 2011), p. XX. Northrup, Atlantic Slave Trade, p. 88. OR Klein, “Profits and Losses,” p. 88. “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages,” Emory University, accessed 1 February 2012, http://www.slavevoyages.org/ tast/ assessment/estimates.faces. “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Voyages.” And if I have no footnotes for sources? Book is up front….have fun.