Sonny Software

I'm sorry if this has been answered before, but I don't seem to be able to find something on the forum.

I can't get Mellel+Bookends to produce year-only citations for repeated authors. I am using APA 5th edition, which formats citations using 'APA citations'. I have ticked 'use year-only for repeated authors' which should produce the following result

texttexttext (Author1, 2002; 2001; 2000)

What I am getting in Mellel is:

....(Author1, 2002; Author1, 2001)

Any suggestions/remedies? Thanks a lot!

ppnkg wrote:I can't get Mellel+Bookends to produce year-only citations for repeated authors. I am using APA 5th edition, which formats citations using 'APA citations'. I have ticked 'use year-only for repeated authors' which should produce the following result

texttexttext (Author1, 2002; 2001; 2000)

What I am getting in Mellel is:

....(Author1, 2002; Author1, 2001)

Any suggestions/remedies? Thanks a lot!

Putting % before the author's name will include only the date:

Author 2001 whatever reference%Author 2003 this other reference

Will give you

(Author, 2001; 2002)

--frank

The % symbol is indeed used that way, but the poster would like to have Bookends detect the repeated author itself and do this automatically.

I'm not sure that this works with custom citations.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon:

thanks. I can confirm that this works fine when you select it with the author-date citations in APA 5th edition.

The citation options of the original style do not apply when you select a custom citation style. AND the citation options of the custom style do not apply as well, since the custom style formats citations, right?

I thing what you are saying is right (the custom format is generally where Bookends looks for options to use with citations, as opposed to the bib). In this particular case, it looks like repeated authors isn't being picked up. I'll make a note and take a look when I can.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi,

Custom citations use the primary and secondary order fields of the format to generate the citation. The settings on the second tab of the custom format are therefore ignored. So if you want APA with repeated years listed after the author, you should simply set the APA 5th Edition format to use author-date citations. Of course, I'd make a new format based n APA 5th Edition and edit that.

Jon
Sonny Software