[Policy] Helmet policy - formatting style notes (and more)

[Mark Cohoe]

HI Everyone,

Great work. My only comment is actually a tip. For references, rather than
inserting them as a number enclosed in parenthesis, you are better off
inserting a reference in Word. To do this, click on the spot where you want
the reference number to appear, the select the proper reference type from
the Reference tab at the top of your screen. Word will do two things at
this point:

   - Insert the reference as a superscript formatted number field
   - Insert the matching reference in either a footnote or endnote section

The benefit of doing things this way is that ordering and numbering is
automated. You have to choose between footnotes or endnotes (we have chosen
endnotes so far), although you still need to format your reference as
before, If you move things around the reference follows the text around  as
desired and re-numbers things if needed.

Mark

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Laura Donatelli <omojean98 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Great.  I will make the modifications as suggested then and then will send
> this out via email (tomorrow) as a pdf for the board to give their approval
> (hopefully) or voice other concerns.  I am hopeful that we can get approval
> on this electronically so as to not spend more time on this one at the next
> board meeting.
>
>
> Laura
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Policy <policy-bounces at lists.bikewinnipeg.ca> on behalf of Ian
> Walker <ianwalker.wpg at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* January 28, 2017 8:59 PM
> *To:* Bill Newman
> *Cc:* BW Policy
> *Subject:* Re: [Policy] Helmet policy - formatting style notes (and more)
>
> Hey folks,
>
> Sorry I was delayed getting back to you.  I've been dozing on and off all
> day with a head cold.
>
> First off, the formatting looks great!  Thanks Bill!
>
> Laura, I like your suggestion for the placement of the numbers at the end
> of the quotation.
>
> I'm ok taking out the Carpenter and Stehr study from the citations.  I had
> not used any quotes from their study.  I had just included it as it had
> been part of my research on youth helmet laws which we aren't really
> addressing in this position statement.
>
> I'm also good using Bill's revised paragraph in the rationale.
>
> I'm also ok altering our stance on encouraging bike helmet use.  Let's go
> with what Laura suggested "Bike Winnipeg encourages people of all ages
> who ride bicycles to consider wearing helmets so as to reduce their chances
> of head injury while riding a bicycle."
>
>
> Thanks for all of your work on this Bill and Laura.
>
> Please let me know if I missed anything else.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Bill Newman <bill.newman at plumdee.ca>
> wrote:
>
>>     I've re-formatted the References section with a style that I think
>> would be useful for us to adopt.  There are no hard and fast rules--this is
>> just similar to what a lot of people use.
>>
>>     The Reference Section is a numbered list in the same order the
>> documents are referenced in the text.  Each item look like this:
>>
>> Author name, another author, "Title of the work Date1", *Publisher or
>> Source, *Date2
>>
>> There should be a date of some sort.  It may be part of the title (Date1)
>> or it may be the publication date (Date2).
>>
>>     In the body of the text I've put numbers in parentheses after the
>> first mention of the document or maybe the first quote from it.  The number
>> needn't be repeated unless the same work is quoted in some other part of
>> the text.  (note that it appears after the period.) The number could be a
>> superscript but they may a little harder to create and a little harder to
>> notice if you are looking backwards from the list to where it was
>> referenced in the body.
>>
>>     I've applied a "text body" style for the paragraphs which specifies a
>> reasonable space between paragraphs.  This was previously done by putting
>> a blank paragraph between each paragraph (not the word processing way:-)
>>     I've also applied a heading style--larger font and bold.  (Do the
>> first two paragraphs need a heading ? ? )
>>
>>     The first referenced document, by Carpenter & Stehr, was mentioned in
>> the third paragraph of the Rationale section but is gone now.  I've left it
>> out.  (It also seemed to be from an unlikely source and not very
>> interesting. --IMHO)
>>     I had to create the citation for Public Health Ontario, it was
>> missing.
>>     There are three extra references that were not used in the text.  I
>> left them in.
>>
>>     The article by D.L. Robinson is really excellent.  *She* cites many
>> surveys and includes some very significant graphs--much more than we can
>> probably afford to include here.
>>     There were a couple of small errors: the numbers quoted were for
>> Melbourne and the law was for all of Australia.
>>     But I've also rewritten that paragraph and included it, indented,
>> after the original.  I don't think I've changed what you meant to say Ian,
>> but you will have to decide.  Go ahead and delete one of them. (Ask me how
>> to remove the indents:-)
>>
>>     This turned out to be more work than I thought but I think it looks
>> good now,......
>>
>>     (Well not really.  I still think the sentence "Bike Winnipeg
>> encourages people of all ages who ride bicycles to wear helmets so as to
>> reduce their chances of head injury while riding a bicycle." is too
>> strong.  Because:
>>
>>    - We see the helmet law as reducing mode share.
>>    - There are a significant number of people who would rather quit
>>    cycling than pack a helmet everywhere.
>>    - We want them back.
>>    - We must respect their choice.
>>    - Everyone should consider a helmet and make their own choice.
>>
>> If we say the non-helmet people are wrong and need correction, the
>> legislators will offer us a nifty little law smack them in line.
>>     Not to be-labour the point, of course :-) :-)
>>
>>     --Bill
>>
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