Question about @

[mawyn]

Let's say I have a reference with author John Doe and title "My Book". A subsequent citation should be formatted like this:

John Doe, "My Book."

If a subsequent citation includes cited pages, I'd like it to look like this:

John Doe, "My Book," 44-45.

How do I define this format? I've tried the following:

a, “s {,” @.^.” }

it works fine if I specify a cited page:

John Doe, “My Book,” 33.

But when I don't, it looks like this:

John Doe, “My Book,” .

I'm expecting "@" to be empty in this case but it apparently isn't.

[Jon]

You would modify the temp citation yourself using Cited Pages.

{temp cite@44-45}

You can do this before it's inserted using Edit -> Copy Citation With Modifiers if you want.

Jon
Sonny Software

[mawyn]

That's exactly what I'm doing. But when I use that it doesn't always expand the way I expect it to.

I'm using the following formatting string:

{,” @.^.” }

It transforms the temp citation:

{temp cite@44-45}

correctly to:

John Doe, "My Book," 44-45.

But when the temp citation is just:

{temp cite}

the formatted citation is:

John Doe, “My Book,” .

What I'm trying for, though, is:

John Doe, “My Book.”

My understanding of the formatting string I'm using above is that the second temp citation - the one without a @ page number - should print out the string behind the ^. In other words just:

."

What it seems to be doing, though, is still printing the formatting string before the ^ with an empty value of @.

Matthew

[Jon]

You're using a format to create a temp citation? That's what you've set in Preferences?

If so, I strongly suggest you use one of the built-in option. Preferences Author, Date, Unique ID.

Now when you us Copy Cited you'll get something like

{Doe, 2022, #123434}

which you can edit to

{Doe, 2022, #123434@44-45}

Now when you scan you'll get the result you want.

If you have a good reason why you want to use a format, please write directly to tech support and we'll see what we can do.

Jon
Sonny Software