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Thank you. This makes it clear. I just missed that "Surname Only" button.

Is it possible to create a custom citation format (User Guide p. 144) that includes only the author's (or editor's) surname?

Thanks

Some on on Mellel forum have noticed that in some instances BE uses straight quotes in formatting, and in others curly (typographers') quotes. For example, in Formats Manager > Formatting Options, Chicago 15th A encloses title of a journal article in straight quotes, whereas MLA uses curly ones to d...

Thanks for keeping track of this, Jon.

How late is latest build of Bookends 10.2. ?
I downloaded it this past Friday and JSTOR still doesn't work for me....?

Please forgive my ignorance. I haven't used BE for a JSTOR search before, but this exchange made me want to do so. I presume that this is a form of Online Search, like those I've done many times using University libraries. (And I'm hoping that maybe I'll be able to download PDFs along with the refer...

Hi Jon Thanks for your quick reply. Your attentiveness to all of us out here is remarkable. The panes I’d most like to be able to alter are the Concise View pane, Display pane, and Group pane. (Since these are the ones I have open routinely.) But I may well be a minority of one. I don’t mean to ...

A minor issue: In recent years I’ve come to realize that on-screen documents with a light-blue background are much easier on the eye than bright white. (This forum uses such a background.) But Bookends is one of the few places (along with Mail) that I can’t get a gentle background. (Mellel and S...

Jon Thanks for your helpful reply. Yes, I've been using Exclude from final document. When scanned in Mellel a space remains where the Temporary citation was. This is a minor annoyance, but one that makes this option less useful. But I think I've figured out my problem. I just needed to learn how to ...

Jon, Thanks for your quick reply. (You seem to work too hard!) Yes, drag and drop is simple, but, for me at least, it means resizing windows so that I can see both source and target databases. Perhaps I should just set them all to be narrow and get used to seeing only part of the window. Any reason ...

I know that I can drag and drop a reference from one database to another, and that I can export a reference from one database and then import it to another. I find both of these methods a bit cumbersome, the first because of my small screen, the second because of the number of steps involved. Is the...

Jon, Thanks for your reply. The trick for me is that even in the same paragraph sometimes I want author and pg. #, sometimes just pg. #, sometimes just author, etc. And I can’t figure out how to adjust the format of a citation ad hoc this way. So it seems best to omit the citation from the final d...

Hi--
I'm new to BE and imagine others have been down this road already.
My in-text citations appear in various forms so I think I need to type what I want to see, then enter a citation and choose “Exclude from final documentâ€