For academic purposes, the citation should follow exactly as it was published when published- i.e., the names as they are on the document as published even if the author has had a subsequent name change. Here is a useful post on this RE: APA style.
One could add a footnote somewhere to state that Author X now publishes as Author X2 so it's clear if that is required.
@petersuber@academicchatter Interesting. But I remember there being issues around the specially selected (secret) ‘Pro’ group to whom #Substack give large amounts of money to write a newsletter for its platform? Is the situation described in this 2021 article (and others from around the same time) still the case, does anyone know? And if so does it also apply to academics #publishing on the platform?
'For all we know, every single one of Substack’s top newsletters is supported by money from Substack. Until Substack reveals who exactly is on its payroll, its promises that anyone can make money on a newsletter are tainted. We don’t have enough data to judge whether to invest our creative energies in Substack because the company is putting its thumb on the scale by ... giving a secret group of “financially constrained writers the ability to start building a sustainable enterprise.”'
I’m loving all the posts for #AltTextCoverDay today so join in if you can!
Here’s a beautiful book I bought earlier this year on a trip to Oxford. We visited the historic Blackwell’s bookshop which is enormous as I wanted to go to the rare books section at the top of the shop to see if they had any first editions of my favourite author, Barbara Pym. She studied at Oxford University and many of her books, which were published in the mid 20th century, are set in the city. I was surprised to find they only had one, Crampton Hodnet, and that it was no more expensive than a standard hardback book. I’m #blind so my husband described the cover and read the blurb for me and even though I’ll only ever read this book in Braille or audio now I had to buy it!
This novel was one she wrote just before WW2 but it was not published in her lifetime. She had a difficult #publishing journey after initial success in the 1950s and was eventually shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Quartet in Autumn in 1977. After her death in 1980 Macmillan finally published this one in 1985.
I’ve read all her books and a recent biography of her, so I love that I get to own this piece of her publishing history which is something she never got to enjoy. #bookstodon@bookstodon