question on using ibid.

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K1
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question on using ibid.

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I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I want to be able to use Ibid. for references in my main text, so in the Formats Manager under Bib & Citation options, I clicked on "custom citation format" (previously "author & date" was selected) and checked the "Ibid." box.

When I scan my document, a few of my references are showing up correctly, the Ibids look right, but for references that I added either a page number or other text to, they are showing the full reference information instead of just the author and date format. Does that make sense?
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Post by Jon »

When you select custom citation format, you have to point it at *another* format (usually), via the popup menu. The other format contains the instructions for generating the citation. See Chicago for an example.

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