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WorldCat Discovery: Updated Citation Styles

The WorldCat Discovery installation on January 29, 2020 included the following new enhancement.

The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note: Not all of the enhancements/bug fixes are relevant to the UC Melvyl instances.)

New features and enhancements

Updated citation styles.  This release will include updated style manuals to ensure users are creating the best citations possible. The table below lists the style manual updates:

OLD UPDATED
ASA 5th ed. ASA 6th ed.
Chicago (author-date) 16th ed. Chicago (author-date) 17th ed.
Chicago (notes-bibliography) 16th ed. Chicago (notes-bibliography) 17th ed.
Harvard (Cite Them Right) 9th ed. Harvard (Cite Them Right) 10th ed.
Turabian (author-date) 8th ed. Turabian (author-date) 9th ed.
Turabian (notes-bibliography) 8th ed. Turabian (notes-bibliography) 9th ed.