References to texts in Collected Works / chapters in books

[dialectician]

I am in the Humanities, I use Chicago Style and In my daily use of Bookends & Mellel, I keep running into the following problem:

When citing books from an author's Collected Works, I often want different information displayed in the footnotes than in the bibliography. For instance:

In the footnotes, I want the following information:

4. Aristotle Metaphysics 996b5-8
5. Aristotle Physics 996b5-8

In the Bibliography, however, I need to include a reference to the translation I used. In my case, it's a reference to

Aristotle. The Complete Works. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

I created a new reference type in Bookends, which allows me to override the punctuation in the footnote and to get Bookends to display exactly what I want in the footnote and in the bibliography. So I have separate entries for Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics that will display the information exactly as indicated above. So in the footnote, they will give the title Physics and in the bibliography only Complete Works.

But I am facing the following problem. When I cite both the Physics and the Metaphysics in a text, I get a double entry in the bibliography.
Aristotle. The Complete Works. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Aristotle. The Complete Works. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Is there any way I can tell Bookends to only display this information once? I tried to link the different entries, but that doesn't really help.

Incidentally, I am running into the same problem when I cite multiple chapters from the same book and when I only want a reference to the book once in the bibliography.

Is there anything I can do about this? If not, here's a feature request: It seems as though there would be various ways to fix this. For instance, there could be a way to set parameters for linked references, such that I could set BE to only include a parent in the bibliography. Or, a simpler way to address this could be to include an individual override function, so that I could tell BE to never include a particular citation in the Bibliography. That would allow me to create a third reference that refers to the Complete Works, and use the "Exclude From
Final Document" function in Mellel.

Help would be much appreciated.

[Jon]

Hi,

Make sure that your Chicago format is using the Chicago 15th A Footnotes format to create custom citations.If you think it is set properly, please contact tech support directly for help.

Jon
Sonny Software