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Taman
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Unusual Bibliography

Post by Taman »

Hello,

I'm trying to sort out the formatting for a somewhat unusual citation/bibliography format (well at least I think so). It uses superscription numbering for citations. In the bibliography, it lists the numbers and puts the bibliographic stuff here. I can do this much fine but...

There are two elements that are challenging me.

First, adding a comment to the bibliography. Normally this would go in the citation, but I need just the number for the citation and the comment included in the bibliography.

Second, I would like it to use a single number for the citation and include multiple references in the bibliography if appropriate. Rather than the default of putting multiple numbers in the citation.

The following is an example of a bibliographic entry that is expected for this journal (BTW it's Long Range Planning):
40. A summary of other ways of thinking about boundaries can be found in the following papers: S. Karim
and W. Mitchell, Innovating through Acquisition and Internal Development: A Quarter-Century of
Boundary Evolution at Johnson & Johnson, Long Range Planning Special Issue on Boundaries and
Innovation, 37(6), 525e547, (2004);
J. Roos, B. Victor and M. Statler, Playing Seriously with Strategy, Long Range Planning Special Issue on
Boundaries and Innovation, 37(6), 549e568, (2004);
D. Dougherty and C.H. Takacs, Team Play: Heedful Interrelating as the Boundaries for Innovation, Long
Range Planning Special Issue on Boundaries for Innovation 37(6), 569e590, (2004);
S. Grand, G. von Krogh, D. Leonard and W. Swap, Resource Allocation Beyond Firm Boundaries: A
Multi-Level Model for Open Source Innovation, Long Range Planning Special Issue on Boundaries and
Innovation, 37(6), 599e610, (2004).
Any help would be much appreciated - I really really don't want to have to do it manually!
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Re: Unusual Bibliography

Post by Jon »

Hi,

You might see if the "group references always cited together" is of help for point #2. As for comments in the bibliography, there's no convenient way to do that. With some work you could place such comments in a specific field (of the first reference in the group) and modify the format you are using to output that field (if it contains information). But that's more work than it's work. I'd just add the text to the bibliography manually before submission.

Jon
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Taman
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Re: Unusual Bibliography

Post by Taman »

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your quick reply. I suppose the comment is less important (well frequent) than the grouping. I tried that grouping option, but it seems to make bookends crash each time I use it. It crashed. Then I started it up and did without grouping - it worked fine. Then switched grouping back on - it crashed again. I can't seem to get it to run with the grouping option selected.

I really don't know anything about console, but this is what it says:
09/02/2009 18:38:03 Bookends[376] NSDocumentController Info.plist warning: The values of CFBundleTypeRole entries must be 'Editor', 'Viewer', 'None', or 'Shell'.
09/02/2009 18:40:32 com.apple.launchd[95] ([0x0-0x51051].com.sonnysoftware.bookends[376]) Exited with exit code: 216
Best, Taman
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Re: Unusual Bibliography

Post by Jon »

Hi,

The console is not helpful, unfortunately. Please contact me directly for tech support (support@sonnysoftware.com).

Jon
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