Handling Multiple Undated Citations from the Same Author

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Eingang
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Handling Multiple Undated Citations from the Same Author

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I'm struggling with undated citations appearing in the formatted reference list correctly. Imagine I have a paper with the following two references:
  • The Open University. (n.d.) About the ou: The purpose of the ou, [online] The Open University. Available from: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/ou/ (Accessed February 22, 2009).
  • The Open University. (n.d.) Back the ou, [online] The Open University. Available from: http://www.backtheou.com/ (Accessed February 22, 2009).
The inline citation for both of them will read exactly the same: Open University, n.d. They should be labelled "a" and "b" like other ones:
Maybe I'm entering the wrong thing in the "date" field. What should I enter to get the desired behaviour?

Thanks,

Ein
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Re: Handling Multiple Undated Citations from the Same Author

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Bookends will only append letters to a year, so for example you don't get "In pressa" and "In pressb". If you don't have a year Bookends will not append a letter (you won't get "n.d.a" and "n.d.b".

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Re: Handling Multiple Undated Citations from the Same Author

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Jon wrote:Bookends will only append letters to a year, so for example you don't get "In pressa" and "In pressb". If you don't have a year Bookends will not append a letter (you won't get "n.d.a" and "n.d.b".
I can see that makes sense, but then it still leaves me with a problem of how do my readers differentiate between them inline using an author/date system? "Open University, n.d." for both would be confusing. Any suggestions?
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Re: Handling Multiple Undated Citations from the Same Author

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I really don't know. I'm not sure what the "official" solution is for different standard styles (like Chicago). Perhaps others can offer informed advice. Bookends does allow you to disambiguate using the authors full name, the short title, etc.

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