Credit Guidelines for Text & Photographs

Georgia 4-H Centennial
History Book

Guidelines for Citing Sources

Quoted Material

Direct quotations should be reproduced exactly in wording, spelling, punctuation, and spelling. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, p. 357, the following are permissable changes in direct quotes:

Single quotation marks may be changed to double, and double to single.
Commas or periods appearing outside the closing quotation mark may be moved inside.
The initial letter may be changed to a capital ora lower case letter.
The final period may be omitted or changed to a comma.
If a passage is quoted from a modern source (book, journal or newspaper), an obvious typographical error may be slightly corrected. If the passage is from an older work, an odd spelling should be preserved. The author may make changes for clarification sake but should include a note in brackets explaining the alteration.
Following the quote, a reference of the passage is included in the parenthesis. For the above information it would be quoted as (Fawcett, p. 76)
The full bibliography information for the source is included at the close of the county submission. For example, the above information would be referenced as: Chicago Manual of Style: Fourteenth Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. These will be compiled for the close of the book.

Photographs

Photographs should include the source in the caption. This includes (if known) the photographer as well as the source for the photo such as the owner, museum, newspaper, or reference book. Examples of credits may include:
    Painting by Lynwood Hall, 1985; from Rock Eagle 4-H Center
    Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Cecil Johnson
    Bill Sutton, photographer, 1959; from Eatonton Messenger

Receiving Permission

Written permission is necessary for documents not in public domain or that are not part of Extension service (University of Georgia) property. All pictures previously reproduced should be traced and credited to their previous sources. If material, written or photographic, is copywrited written permission is necessary except for brief summaries and quotations.

Click here for sample permission form for photographs/illustrations

Collaborator's Credit

Include at the close of the county's text submission the name(s) of those who prepared the county history. These contributors should be listed as:
Contributed by:

As many names may be listed as is accurate for the submission.

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