need help with a format for citing references

stef · Post by **stef** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:26 am

For a current manuscript I have to cite references within the text using the first letter(s) of the authors. Can this be done in Bookends. How?
Can anyone suggest a work-around?

Here are the details of the requirements:

[Ez99] for a source with one author: E (capital) stands for the first letter of the authorâ€™s family name, z for the second letter of the family name, 99 stands for the year of publication,
[Ez99a], [Ez99b], if a number of works by the same author exist from the same year
[AB00] or [ABC01] for a source with two or three authors: A, B and C stand for the first letters (in capitals) of the authors in the sequence in which they are listed in the source.
in the case of more than three authors, only the first author mentioned in the source is listed, by analogy with (1), e.g. [Az99].

Post by **Jon** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:17 am

These, then, are encrypted citations for use by American Homeland Security? :-)

I'm sorry, Bookends can't do this.

Jon
Sonny Software

stef · Post by **stef** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:22 am

Ha!

But, no, this is an apparently common in-text citation format for proceedings of (bio)informatics conferences...

Sigh.

Thanks anyway!