Citations using two dates

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annabellelukin
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Citations using two dates

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I've just migrated to Bookends from Endnote. One facility I don't seem to have is the capacity to use two publication dates for a citation. In my part of linguistics, there are various important works that have an original and a republication date (in, for instance, The Collected Works of MAK Halliday). I need to show both, something like this: 2003[1992] - so readers can refer to the current in publication source, but also know that the original ideas may be as much as 50 years old.

I could do this in Endnote, but while Bookends will accept this format in an entry, it won't reproduce it when I cite the entry in Mellel.

Any advice?
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Re: Citations using two dates

Post by Jon »

Two things:

1. In the format, *uncheck* "Use year-only for date". Then Bookends will output the entire Date field.

2. In the next update, you can tell Bookends to output the full Date field on an ad hoc basis by ending the date with a comma:

2003[1992],

will appear as

2003[1992]

regardless of your format settings.

Jon
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