confusion on attributions
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I'm struggling to clearly understand attributions and source cites from Formats §9.4 and §9.5. Could you please confirm if my understanding is correct? I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure this out.
In general, I'm interpreting these sections that attributes and sources are largely treated the same for the most part. Attributions are generally right next to the related text, but source citations are placed in various places on the page (footnotes, etc).
If I have a phrase that reads "Excerpt from Sanity Lost by Jane Doe (Confusionville: Brain Melted Publisher, 2026)" ... and then the excerpt would follow immediately after, am I on track that it would be treated as an attribution and have a blank line between the attribute line and the excerpt text? Or would that be treated as regular text and no blank line?
If the source/attribution follows the text on the same line, am I correct that we braille it the same as print, on the same line immediately following the related text? The way I'm reading 9.4.1b and 9.5.1d is that we would still put a blank line after the attribution. Is that right? I couldn't find an example that way in Formats.
Thanks for any help and restoration of my sanity (the little that remains)!
I attached a pdf of some scenarios I'm not sure I understand. I'm working on my Literary Transcription cert and trying to make sense of Lesson 17 which covers attributions. The lesson doesn't include examples, just the exercise to submit for grading. I know I can't share a screenshot or specific example from that here, so I just made up some examples. My brain tends to read into text in over analytical ways, and since there aren't examples in this lesson I'm second guessing myself into oblivion.
The first scenario, would you treat that as an attribution with the adjusted margin and a blank line after?
The second and third scenarios, with the attribution after the quote and on the same line, would I braille that with it on the same line as the related text and a blank line after it?
(Side note - the examples aren't from a specific book. Just a random example my neurospicy brain threw together.)
Ahhh. The LOC lessons. The examples you show are embedded. They just follow print.
In guidelines for attributions and source citations, the placement is for material that appears around the material (in the margin, bottom of page, on the line after the text, etc.).
If your 3rd scenario was:
“It was from the crashing of waves on the shoreline, the spray of water
forming dots on the sand spelling out ‘you crazy’, that I knew it was time
for a break.”—Confusionville, 24
Then it would be blocked in the fifth cell. It is not part of the quote, story, etc. It is separate.
That helps so much, thank you! I understand the difference now.
Just to confirm, if the attribute is embedded, I don't do a blank line after it. Is that right?
Correct. No blank line is necessary if the attribution is embedded on the same line as the quote, etc.
But anytime that source/attribution information is blocked, you must insert the blank line following it.
I want to be helpful but must caution you that this forum is for understanding the Braille Formats code and applying it to transcriptions. It is not always helpful for students in the basic literary course. The LOC course book is not a rule book. There may be requirements in the LOC that are not necessarily applied when later following Braille Formats.
Follow your grader's instructions and read your lesson exercise instructions carefully. They sometimes include clues or direct you to do certain things--like adding blank lines when ordinarily blank lines are not inserted.
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