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[dr_evil]

After perusing this page, all I can say is that I think you all should get yourselves over to the "nerdiest thing you do" thread and fess up.

I admitted my nerdiness long before this thread.

[msparticularity]

After perusing this page, all I can say is that I think you all should get yourselves over to the "nerdiest thing you do" thread and fess up.

I admitted my nerdiness long before this thread.

So, does anyone else use citation style as a consideration in deciding where to submit a journal article? Not that I would ever actually make it the criterion (probably), but it certainly cemented the deal when discovered that my first-choice journal for a particular article uses Chicago :).

And I'm a confirmed two-spacer also, but through extensive self-training am managing (mostly) to insert only one space. However, I still insist upon Thinkpads, because having spent the first decade or so of my young life typing on IBM Selectrics, I just can't handle a different keyboard.

[monarda]

I love this thread!

I'm a two spacer, but sometimes I don't actually pay attention. 

And I don't ever use the curly or double quotes –  (that's an 'option' dash, BTW)
it seems single quotes will be sufficient.

[technicalpublisher]

WARNING:  Tell your students that no one is wrong.  It depends on the intended audience and the end use.

I am a professional in the technical arena who has managed a publication shop.  Despite the old typesetting origin of the double space or the new technology perks with fonts that compensate, we made the decision to use two spaces after terminal (at the end of a sentence) periods and colons.

Our primary customer is the Federal Aviation Administration.  We keep planes flying in the sky safely.  We cannot afford misinterpretation or impose a second reading.  We also account for what's called Human Factors (the natural impact a person has on the performance of an action, a process, a project).  In this case, we help readability by providing a layout that aids an air traffic controller's vision while in a low-lit room.

Here is an example why we USE TWO SPACES AFTER A TERMINAL PERIOD:

Open the param.dir.consit.exe file. Flum.win opens. Check the metadata to ensure that a green tag has been inserted. Close flum.win and param.dir.consit.exe. Verify that the window displays a .88mHz indicator.  (one space)

versus

Open the param.dir.consit.exe file.  Flum.win opens.  Check the metadata to ensure that a green tag has been inserted.  Close flum.win and param.dir.consit.exe.  Verify that the window displays a .88mHz indicator.  (two spaces)

To avoid errors, we err on the side of typographical caution.  For a nontechnical assignment, choose freely.  However, help us technical folks by raising awareness of the intended audience and the industry.

[infopri]

Makes perfect sense to me, technicalpublisher.  I think you and your shop have made a wise call.

[kilpikonna]

Dude!  Style guidelines that take into account data about how people think!  I love it!

Of course, I am a partisan for the two space style. :)  But I genuinely think it is more readable.

[blackbart]

So, does anyone else use citation style as a consideration in deciding where to submit a journal article? Not that I would ever actually make it the criterion (probably), but it certainly cemented the deal when discovered that my first-choice journal for a particular article uses Chicago :).

And I'm a confirmed two-spacer also, but through extensive self-training am managing (mostly) to insert only one space. However, I still insist upon Thinkpads, because having spent the first decade or so of my young life typing on IBM Selectrics, I just can't handle a different keyboard.

In my field, one of the top-tier journals is also (nearly) the only one to use Chicago's author-date, parenthetical-reference/reference list citation system. Almost everyone else uses the Chicago footnote/bibliography system. As a result, submissions to this journal requires the typical scholar to "translate" all citations into the author-date system... and if a rejected submission is to be re-submitted elsewhere, one must translate the citations back!

Fiddlesticks.

[sciencephd]

So, does anyone else use citation style as a consideration in deciding where to submit a journal article? Not that I would ever actually make it the criterion (probably), but it certainly cemented the deal when discovered that my first-choice journal for a particular article uses Chicago :).

And I'm a confirmed two-spacer also, but through extensive self-training am managing (mostly) to insert only one space. However, I still insist upon Thinkpads, because having spent the first decade or so of my young life typing on IBM Selectrics, I just can't handle a different keyboard.

In my field, one of the top-tier journals is also (nearly) the only one to use Chicago's author-date, parenthetical-reference/reference list citation system. Almost everyone else uses the Chicago footnote/bibliography system. As a result, submissions to this journal requires the typical scholar to "translate" all citations into the author-date system... and if a rejected submission is to be re-submitted elsewhere, one must translate the citations back!

Fiddlesticks.

If you use citation software such as Endnote, this reformatting requires about 1 minute.