Sonny Software

Hello,

I'm quite new to Bookends, but I just have to ask this because I couldn't find an answer from the User Guide or from here.

How do I do citations of webpages properly? Is there a way to use abbreviations?

In almost every paper I'm citing at least one webpage and those are always problematic. Especially when the author is not a person but an organisation. For example if I'm citing an article by the World Association of Newspapers, in most cases I would like to abbreviate it. So in text I would usually cite it as:

(WAN 2004)

And in the bibliography list it would appear as:

WAN (2004). World Association of Newspapers. Newspaper: 400 Years Young! http://www.wan-press.org/article6476.html 22/10/2006

But in some cases, I would put the citation in a footnote. So then there would be no need for abbreviating and the citation would appear as:

1. World Association of Newspapers. Newspaper: 400 Years Young! http://www.wan-press.org/article6476.html 22/10/2006

If there isn't a way to do this yet, could something like this be implemented in the future? I was thinking something like the way you can use abbreviations in php-pages:

It seems you simply want to be able to cite citations differently in footnotes and bibliographies in the same document (the fact that they are web pages is irrelevant). The solution is to create a custom citation format, which will be used for footnotes when you format with the "master" format, which will be used for the bibliography.

Please look in the User Guide for custom citation formats for details.

Jon
Sonny Software