Properly Citing a PF book.


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Salutations item creators - I'v read through the debates on hyper linking and I want to ensure I include a proper citation for for a magical effect.

As I believe it appears in text a citation should appear as follows

Words about the cool thing and funny effect you may not know (<i>Game Masters Guide p. 123</i>)

Is that accurate?

Regards
spud

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Generally, I think you don't want to use page numbers, because said page numbers can change. (IIRC, Paizo's willing to use it in their own products but does not want it in others'.) You should be fine just using the name of the product (in italics), but be sure you get it right, i.e. Game Mastery Guide.

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Jacob W. Michaels wrote:
Generally, I think you don't want to use page numbers, because said page numbers can change. (IIRC, Paizo's willing to use it in their own products but does not want it in others'.) You should be fine just using the name of the product (in italics), but be sure you get it right, i.e. Game Mastery Guide.

Thank you for the input. Is it accurate to put the source between parentheses? (Game Mastery Guide) I was reviewing how it was done in a few critiqued items last year.

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Putting it in parens is just fine (and, for the purpose of this competition, page numbers--or no page numbers--are fine as well).

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