A Real Unpublished Dissertation Option

Feature requests
1

Hello,

I would like to have an Unpublished Dissertation type. There is currently nothing that quite meets the APA standard. Here is the APA standard:

Lastname, F. N. (Year). Title of dissertation (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Name of Institution, Location.

The type Thesis gets close. It even has a Status field, but unfortunately this field does not show up in the formatted reference list.

If this could be added or if there is a convenient workaround, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
zazzman

2

I did not know there is such a thing like an unpublished dissertation. What does it mean? In principle every dissertation is published by the University, right? Does it mean it is not published by a publisher as book? Also, do you know if this is an APA specific thing or other style guides know this type as well?

3

Stefan,

I’m most familiar with APA. In the APA 6th Edition, section 7.09, page 211 the topic of “Unpublished and Informally Published Works” is covered. As for MLA, I did a quick Google search and found this: http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/citation/mla/unpublisheddissertations/. I don’t know if that helps or not.

I think this could be fixed by having the Status field show up in the citations, but that’s just my 2¢.

Thanks,
Josh