Kevin Randall said:

>Personally, I feel that notes are the only place that periods should be 
>required, IF we are to require them at all.  And I feel that ONLY because 
>notes tend to be written as sentences, and sentences usually end with 
>periods.  (The other parts of the bibliographic record are not sentences; 
>they are merely pieces of data.)

Margaret Mann taught me that the title was to by capitalized and
punctuated as if a sentence.  That means to me that proper names
should begin with an upper case letter, and that there should be a
period at the end.  Why mess with what has worked so well for so long?


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