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I'm struggling with undated citations appearing in the formatted reference list correctly. Imagine I have a paper with the following two references:

• The Open University. (n.d.) About the ou: The purpose of the ou, [online] The Open University. Available from: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/ou/ (Accessed February 22, 2009).
• The Open University. (n.d.) Back the ou, [online] The Open University. Available from: http://www.backtheou.com/ (Accessed February 22, 2009).

The inline citation for both of them will read exactly the same: Open University, n.d. They should be labelled "a" and "b" like other ones:

• Walker, M. (2007a) Improved learning through improved feedback on assignments, The Open University. Available from: http://www.open.ac.uk/opencetl/resource ... fb525a0127 (Accessed November 1, 2008).
• Walker, M. (2007b) Using comments on assignments to good effect, The Open University. Available from: http://www.open.ac.uk/opencetl/resource ... af0eddc830 (Accessed November 1, 2008).

Maybe I'm entering the wrong thing in the "date" field. What should I enter to get the desired behaviour?

Thanks,

Ein

Bookends will only append letters to a year, so for example you don't get "In pressa" and "In pressb". If you don't have a year Bookends will not append a letter (you won't get "n.d.a" and "n.d.b".

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:Bookends will only append letters to a year, so for example you don't get "In pressa" and "In pressb". If you don't have a year Bookends will not append a letter (you won't get "n.d.a" and "n.d.b".

I can see that makes sense, but then it still leaves me with a problem of how do my readers differentiate between them inline using an author/date system? "Open University, n.d." for both would be confusing. Any suggestions?

I really don't know. I'm not sure what the "official" solution is for different standard styles (like Chicago). Perhaps others can offer informed advice. Bookends does allow you to disambiguate using the authors full name, the short title, etc.

Jon
Sonny Software