not sure how these two sentences link (apart from the "colon + blank space", I mean ;-) - Claudia Koltzenburg

citation styles aren't designed to handle items "published" in two places - D0r0th34

so this is a problem of citation styles which might have to be looked into? step 1. let me ask - just to be sure: what do you mean by citation style, the guidelines - which may vary by discipline - that are designed to be useful for authors and editors? step 2. what does multimedia have to do with this in particular? why not any type of file? thanks - Claudia Koltzenburg

1. yes 2. for a long time citation rulebooks had no rules for citing video, audio, or websites. - D0r0th34

2. I take this has changed - and hence, while I like your provocative statement, I do disagree :-) so let me reiterate my current topic and point here: http://ff.im/7KTrO - Claudia Koltzenburg

Noted, but IMO that doesn't let the writers of citation handbooks off the hook. They're putting their users at risk for unintended and unwanted failure to cite. (They'd cite if the citation style only let them!) - D0r0th34

hm, how do you know? anyway, let me add this point to my list at http://network.nature.com/groups..., thanks - Claudia Koltzenburg

first, citation guidelines for multimedia do exist - I have no problem citing multimedia - and as we discussed in another thread, I think the citing context is where the details about, for example, where to look in the picture or video go.... Now, for the problem in this post. Specifically, INSPEC is savvy about conferences published in journals - they have an article type for that. When I export those records to my citation manager, they come in as "generic". I have the choice to cite them as a journal article thereby optimizing retrieval of the full text (for the readers of this particular work product), or citing them as conference papers, keeping more information on 1)where information was discussed 2)when information was discussed - more important for the readers of this particular work product - Christina Pikas

seen this? http://ff.im/8HPXx - Claudia Koltzenburg