One of my patrons wants to cite material I found for him on the NCI
gopher, so I thought: "Fine, I know where to locate instructions for
citing material in non-traditional formats!"  And I went directly to our
reference stacks, where I found the following:
 
        National Library of Medicine recommended formats for
        bibliographic citation, by Karen Patrias.  Bethesda: NLM Reference
        Section, April 1991.
 
... but when I looked in the Table of Contents, there is no mention of
"gopher".  These instructions were probably written before gophers were even
thought of ... !
 
What does the list think? Is a gopher just a more sophisticated BBS for
the purposes of bibliographic citation?  Can I follow the instructions
given in the NLM manual for citing contributions to a BBS -- even though it
was an article on a gopher -- and be correct? or at least have enough
information to allow a reader to access the same article if s/he wants to
(providing, of course, that it hasn't been removed in the meantime)?
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