Author: David Mitchell
Date: 19:36:22 03/22/04
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On March 22, 2004 at 22:11:08, Dave Gomboc wrote: >In my thesis I want to refer to van der Meulen's work (that was published in >Advances in Computer Chess 5). I have the following sentence fragment: > >"van der Meulen (1989) provides algorithms for..." (blah, blah). > >In English, it's pretty much compulsory to start the sentence with a capital >letter, but I don't want to rearrange the sentence so that the name is not at >the front. However, using "Van der Meulen" just makes me think that it's >spelled incorrectly. > >Does anyone know the proper practice for this? > >Dave Sidestep the problem by starting the sentence with his first name. :) I don't have my Chicago book handy, but I believe it's correct to capitalize the name if it's the first word in a sentence. dave
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