{"id":604,"date":"2012-11-30T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=604"},"modified":"2012-11-30T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:11:06","slug":"copy-editor-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Copy Editor Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know at least one of my LJ friends will have sympathy with this one. I&#8217;ve received the proofs for a new journal article(*). While most of the comments are reasonable there&#8217;s a pair that are rather stupid when taken together. In the paper we reference this paper:<\/p>\n<p>Dick , A . R . and Brooks , M . J . ( 2003 ) Issues in automated visual surveillance . In: Sun e t al (eds .) .<\/p>\n<p>which as anyone who udnerstands referencing can see then cross-references:<\/p>\n<p>Sun , C . , Talbot , H . , Ourselin , S . and Adriaansen , T . (eds). ( 2003 ) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2003, 10 \u2013 12 December 2003, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia . CSIRO Publishing .<\/p>\n<p>The copy editors have separately asked:<\/p>\n<p>Please provide further publication details in the reference Dick and Brooks (2003).<\/p>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<p>Reference Sun et al (2003) not cited in the text. Please cite in the text, else delete from the reference list.<\/p>\n<p>Argh!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(*) From my web page &#8220;News&#8221; section about this paper: A joint paper with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/sse\/about\/staff\/j-m-ferryman.aspx\">Dr James Ferryman<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/sse\/\">School of Systems Engineering,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/\">University of Reading<\/a> has just been accepted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/sj\">Security Journal<\/a>. The pre-print of <a href=\"http:\/\/opendepot.org\/1520\/\">The Future of Video Analystics for Surveillance and Its Ethical Implications<\/a> is available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/opendepot.org\">The Open Depot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know at least one of my LJ friends will have sympathy with this one. I&#8217;ve received the proofs for a new journal article(*). While most of the comments are reasonable there&#8217;s a pair that are rather stupid when taken together. In the paper we reference this paper: Dick , A . R . and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6,43,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-privacy-and-surveillance","category-security","category-social-legal-and-ethical-aspects-of-computing","category-legal-and-ethical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}