Sonny Software

I'm using a format that has slight differences in reference styles for journals paginated by volume versus ones paginated by issue (ASA). Is there any way to mark which are paginated by issue so that Bookends will include the issue in the citation?

If you mean some references have volumes and some have volumes plus issue numbers, you can just turn on "use issue # with vol" in the format. If you mean something more complicate, please explain.

Jon
Sonny Software

I have a similar question to the above.

In APA fifth edition, issue numbers are included in the reference section when the journal is paginated by issue, and omitted when they are paginated by volume (as in, each new issue picks up at the page number the last left off at).

Is there a way to indicate to Bookends which way a given journal is paginated, or perhaps to indicate which way a given entry should be treated, rather than keeping a separate list outside Bookends and editing the reference section manually to match?

Thanks!

Would you please provide a discrete example of what Bookends is giving you and what you want it to look like?

Jon
Sonny Software

Gladly

When citing journal articles APA (pg. 240, APA 5th ed. style guide) formatting sometimes requires the issue number, and sometimes does not. If a given journal uses page numbers cumulatively through a volume (i.e., Volume 2(1) uses pages 1-97, volume 2(2) uses pages 98-150, and so forth), the issue number should not appear. If the journal starts back at page 1 each issue, the issue number should be included. And so:

Behavior Disorders uses cumulative page numbers, so even though this article is in issue 2, the issue number should not appear:

Cullinan, D., Epstein, M. H., & Lloyd, J. W. (1991). Evaluation of conceptual models of behavior disorders. Behavioral Disorders, 16, 148-157.

Preventing School Failure, on the other hand, begins each issue at page no. 1, so this article does require citation of issue number:

Lane, K. L., Menzies, H. M., Barton-Arwood, S. M., Doukas, G. L., & Munton, S. M. (2005). Designing, implementing, and evaluating social skills intervention for elementary students: Step-by-step procedures based on actual school-based investigations. Preventing School Failure, 49(2), 18-26.

Since this is a journal-specific variable within a single format, it can't be set by tweaking the format itself. Right now I'm doing it manually, by keeping a spreadsheet of journal names and their pagination habits, then going back and deleting out issue numbers where they don't belong. I was wondering if there's a way Bookends can handle this, or if not, if it could go on that neverending feature-request list we users are so good at feeding...

Thanks!!

Hi,

I see. Bookends of course cannot know how each journal handles issue numbering. Personally, I wouldn't bother with that level of citation detail unless I was forced to. But, if you feel it is important, the only solution I can think of is to create a new reference Type (Journal article continuous numbering, or some other perhaps more attractive name) and assign this to articles from journals that use this type of numbering. In the format you create the corresponding Type and tell Bookends to exclude the issue number...

Jon
Sonny Software

Hmm. Sounds like a plan! I'll try it.

I use APA formatting, more or less, like many linguists. But I have never noticed anyone following this particular part of the specification. Is there an editor somewhere who really cares about this and is making your life difficult?

lol.. yep.

I'd never noticed it before either, but the journals in my specialty seem to all be clamping down on it at once - just got back three proofs in a row with requests for that particular correction.

I had a similar problem, which I solved in the way described below.
There is in my field of Research (Ophthalmology) a Journal calles "Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie". The first forty volumes consist of four issues each with separate pagination, starting with 1 each issue. So here you need to include issue numbers. Later volumes are paginated across all issues of a volume so here I want to suppress issue numbers. If the reference format is called "Journal article" Bookends will normally suppress issue numbers, if "include issue number with volume" is not checked. If this option is checked, on the other hand, all issue numbers will be included, which I do not want. Therefore I created another Reference format "J. article" identical to "Journal article" in all respects. With this format name, Bookends does not suppress issue numbers and I use this format whenever I want the issue number to be included.
Does that help with your problem, George?
Hans-Reinhard