User:Bellhalla/navsource.org reliability

{{{prefix|}}}* {{{intro|I initially had the same concerns about citing NavSource.org until I did a search for works that have cited the website.}}} I came up with the following through Google Books, listing only those where I could see an actual citation (citations that were specifically for images only are not included):

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last1 = Holmes | first1 = John J. | last2 = Balanis | first2 = Constantine A. | title = Exploitation of a Ship's Magnetic Field Signatures | location = [San Rafael, California] | publisher = Morgan & Claypool Publishers | year = 2006 | series = Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics, #9 | isbn = 9781598290745 | oclc = 254572798 | doi = 10.2200/s00034ed1v01y200605cem009 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Holmes | first = John J. | title = Reduction of a Ship's Magnetic Field Signatures | location = [San Rafael, California] | publisher = Morgan & Claypool Publishers | year = 2008 | series = Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics, #23 | isbn = 9781598292480 | oclc = 273504872 | doi = 10.2200/s00150ed1v01y200809cem023 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Kennedy | first = Maxwell Taylor | title = Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot who Crippled Her | location = New York | publisher = Simon & Schuster | year = 2008 | edition = 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover | isbn = 9780743260800 | oclc = 221962047 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Peniston | first = Bradley | title = No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf | location = Annapolis, Maryland | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781591146612 | oclc = 63703859 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Scott | first = Ralph L. | title = The Wilmington Shipyard: Welding a Fleet for Victory in World War II | location = Charleston, South Carolina | publisher = History Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781596292109 | oclc = 85822629 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Sewell | first = Kenneth | last2 = Richmond | first2 = Clint | title = Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. | location = New York | publisher = Simon & Schuster | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780743261128 | oclc = 61332564 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Sturma | first = Michael | title = The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine | location = Lexington | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780813124810 0813124816 | oclc = 181335855 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Tunander | first = Ola | title = The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s | location = London | publisher = Frank Cass, | year = 2004 | series = Cass series—naval policy and history, #21 | isbn = 9780714653228 | oclc = 52166050 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Zimmerman | first = W. Frederick | title = SSN-23 Jimmy Carter, U.S. Navy Submarine (Seawolf Class) | location = An Arbor, Michigan | publisher = Nimble Press | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-1-934840-30-6 | oclc = }}

{{{prefix|}}}*In addition, these books list navsource.org in their bibliography sections without enumerating what is being cited (does not include mentions in "acknowledgements" or "further reading" sections):

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Harvey | first = Bill | title = Texas Cemeteries: The Resting Places of Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Interesting Texans | location = Austin | publisher = University of Texas Press | year = 2003 | series = Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, no. 5 | isbn = 9780292734654 | oclc = 50516393 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last1 = LaCroix | first1 = Hal | last2 = Meyer | first2 = Jorg | title = Journey out of Darkness: The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's POW Camps: An Oral History | location = Westport, Connecticut | publisher = Praeger Security International | year = 2007 | edition = | isbn = 9780275997441 | oclc = 123377369 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Page | first = Charles | title = Wings of Destiny : Wing Commander Charles Learmonth DFC and Bar, and the Air War in New Guinea | location = Dural Delivery Centre, New South Wales | publisher = Rosenberg | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781877058646 | oclc = 187294609 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Rayner | first = Jonathan | title = The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema | location = Manchester | publisher = Manchester University Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780719070983 | oclc = 71238964 }}

{{{prefix|}}}** {{cite book | last = Thomas | first = Kathleen | title = Don't Call Me Rosie: The Women who Welded the LSTs and the Men who Sailed on Them | location = Tigard, Oregon | publisher = Thomas/Wright | year = 2004 | edition = first | isbn = 9780975485408 | oclc = 56117036 }}

• There are probably more that are not visible via "Limited Preview" at Google Books. Most appear to be major publishers, including several academic presses. (Obvious vanity press works were excluded.)