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Hi Everyone, I'm trying to figure out how to get BE to separate two or more citations with the same author(s) by a comma. I have the correct field checked in both APA 5th and APA Citations formats, but the citations wind up being separated by a semicolon. So it should be: (Smith, 1987, 1990) but I g...

Hi Jon, Some of the unformatted citations came back, others did not. When I told Word to display field codes, this is what appears for citations that were still formatted: {ADDIN BEC{Stasser and Titus, 2003, #6054}} The unformatted citations don't have the additional info within the outer brackets (...

Hi Jon,

Yes, edited book was selected. It is still doing the same thing.

BTW, I went in and redid all of my references, generated a bib (making sure that retain hidden refs was checked), and I'm still getting the same behavior--the document does not revert back to unformatted citations.

Joe

Hi Jon, Yes. The citation for an edited book would be: Smith, A. B., & Jones, C. D. (Eds.) (Year.) Title. In the text citation, it would be (Smith & Jones, Year). As I mentioned, I tried to fix that in the APA Citations bib format but to no avail. I put "e, d" (without quotes) but ...

Hi Jon, Here's an APA poser: When an edited book is cited, the editors' names appear in author format, followed by (Eds.), then the year. But in the bib, the editors names appear as the would when cited in an edited book, e.g., A.B. Smith rather than Smith, A.B. And the behavior is the same for the ...

Right. I've been doing that as recommended in the last few updates. I've created a duplicate of my current main database for use in 9.07. We'll see what we get.

Joe

Hi Jon,

The Read Me file does not seem to have installation instructions and caveats like previous releases. So, should one just move the contents of the 9.07 folder over to the Bookends Folder in Applications (or wherever one has it)?

Thanks in advance.

Joe

Out of curiosity, will BE support open document format? The reason I ask is because I tried the RTF document scan in BE with a document I wrote in NeoOffice, and the results were less than spectacular. Much of the formatting in the original document was lost, although the refs came out fine. I wound...

Hi Jon, A few releases back you had mentioned you were going to include an updated APA format. There was a workaround for the "et al." and some other author issues in the text where we had to create another format, alter some of the in-text citation stuff, then have the original APA format...

Hi Jon,

That did the trick--FileType is a neat little app. And you are right--searching the DB is very fast. When I used EN, I got used to typing in a search then going to get something to eat--by the time I got back, the search was done.

Joe

Hi Jon, Thanks for your reply. I've found that the DB on my shared drive is "grayed out" when I try to open it with BE on my local machine. So I can't click on it to open it. From Finder, I clicked on "Get Info" and I do have read and write permissions for the file. Again, when I...

I keep my main BE database on my machine at work, and I share the drive so I can access it from home. I do that because all the changes are kept in one place, rather than having several different versions of the DB on different computers. I tried to access that DB today but it doesn't seem to be wor...

Thanks, Jon. I meant to mention that I tried several different delimiters, but I got the same behavior. On another note, I have a question about the "et al." behavior for APA 5th. I found a prevoius thread that pointed me to the user manual )p. 131). I set up "APA Citations" as r...

Hi Everyone, I'm new to Bookends after having used EN for quite some time (and Reference Manager before that, back when I actually used Windows). My question concerns mixing multiple in-text citations with text. Here's an example, with the asterisk as the citation seperator: {Bonito, 2001, #6728* Me...