Sonny Software

I'm using BE 9.0.7 under OS 10.4.7 and Word 2004.
I've got a manuscript with two citations with the same authors and date:

Burgess, C. & Simpson, G. B. (1988). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms in the retrieval of ambiguous word meanings. Brain and Language, 33, 86-103.

Burgess, C. & Simpson, G. B. (1988). Neuropsychology of lexical ambiguity resolution: The contribution of divided visual field studies. In S. I. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution. (pp. 411-430). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

When I scan a citation with both of them together I get:

(Burgess & Simpson, 1988; Burgess, & Simpson, 1988)

So it's incorrectly putting in a comma after the Burgess and, more importantly, it's not putting in subscripts, as in 1988a and 1988b.

Any suggestions?

Joe

It's not appending the letters because the citations aren't identical. Check the actual references -- is there an empty line between the first and second author, for example? Bookends would consider that the "second author".

Jon
Sonny Software

I can't see any differences between the author listings. If it's there, it's invisible. Here are the two author listings:

Burgess, C.
Simpson, G. B.

Burgess, C.
Simpson, G. B.

Just for the heck of it, copy/paste from one to the other, so we're sure they are identical. And if that doesn't help, try rebuilding the database.

Jon
Sonny Software

I tried pasting the authors over and it didn't help. I did see another pair of citations with identical names and dates being handled properly. It occurred to me that what might be different in this case is that one citation is for a journal article and one is for a book chapter. I constructed a couple test cases and they worked fine when they were both journal articles but when I changed one to be a book chapter they showed the same behavior with the extra comma and the absence of the date postscript. Could you try replicating this situation on your own computer?

Yes, I see it, too. It only happens when there are two authors. I'll take a look and see what the problem is.

Jon
Sonny Software

The reason is that the shipping APA Citations format is slightly incorrect. There is a field on the first tab called

Between last names

For the Journal Article Type, it is correctly set as

& ^, & //note the space at the end

But for all other Types it is incorrectly set as

, &

To fix this, set all Types to that of the Journal Article Type.

Jon
Sonny Software

That fixed it! Thanks!