Quick question:
I authored an update to an encyclopedia entry recently. Another individual had authored the previous edition, and presumably turned down the offer to update it when the new edition came out, which is why I (or rather, my advisor) was asked.
Given this was an update, we were supposed to keep the core the same and just add and subtract information as we saw fit. My question is how to cite this on my CV. I am first author, and my advisor is second author on this edition, but ~ 80% of the text was written by someone else. That individual is listed in the encyclopedia, and we are listed as "2008 Revision by: x and y". At first I had the original authors name first and then "Revision by: Ollie & Advisor", but that seemed clunky and didn't look right. My advisor just has us as the authors.
I don't have the most recent pub manual, but the previous edition didn't include this scenario. I'm probably worrying too much over a brief, obscure encyclopedia article, but am still hesitant to list myself as first author when it was a revision and not authored from scratch. Any thoughts?
I authored an update to an encyclopedia entry recently. Another individual had authored the previous edition, and presumably turned down the offer to update it when the new edition came out, which is why I (or rather, my advisor) was asked.
Given this was an update, we were supposed to keep the core the same and just add and subtract information as we saw fit. My question is how to cite this on my CV. I am first author, and my advisor is second author on this edition, but ~ 80% of the text was written by someone else. That individual is listed in the encyclopedia, and we are listed as "2008 Revision by: x and y". At first I had the original authors name first and then "Revision by: Ollie & Advisor", but that seemed clunky and didn't look right. My advisor just has us as the authors.
I don't have the most recent pub manual, but the previous edition didn't include this scenario. I'm probably worrying too much over a brief, obscure encyclopedia article, but am still hesitant to list myself as first author when it was a revision and not authored from scratch. Any thoughts?
