Sonny Software

Hi

I just checked up on my citations back in the day
when I didn't have Bookends (or Mellel) and had
to do citations by hand (and in Word to boot )
and they could look like this:

Se Ivanova, 1995, s.84 og Khlevnyuk, 2000, s.53

Now do I reproduce such formatting in BE ?

"Se" is meant to precede the citation and
"og" (ie. and) is binding them together so to
speak. The ", s." part I have figured out and
I suppose the best way to put "Se " in the cit.
is to either dobbleclick it and put in a "\Se \"
or add it as simple text (right ?). But how do
one add the "og" ? when the temp. cit is produced
by clicking two or more refs in BE and copying
them to Mellel ? Is copying over first one and then
the other and putting in the "og" between the
only way ? And finally is there a way to suppress
the year if a book/article title & author is unique:
Because if say I'm only citing from this one book by
Mrs. Ivanova, then giving the year seems redundant.


Regards and thanks
Ken

Hi,

If you are using author-date citation, in the format definition you can tell Bookends what to output between 2 citations. The default is

" and "

but you could make it

" og "

You can't tell Bookends to suppress the year if there is only one citation by that author. I'm not aware of any standard citation style that does that (although by this point nothing about arbitrary citation rules can shock me).

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Jon

Thanks for taking the time

If you are using author-date citation, in the format definition you can tell Bookends what to output between 2 citations. The default is " and " but you could make it " og "

Consequently I clicked "author & data" in the citations pane and put in " og " in the
"separate two authors with" field.
The temp citation looks like this:
but the final citation retains the semicolon as
a separator:
What am I doing wrong ?

I'm not aware of any standard citation style that does that (although by this point nothing about arbitrary citation rules can shock me).

Figures since the format is of my own (arbitrary) design

Regards
Ken

Oh, that setting is for two authors in the same citation. Sorry. There is no option right now for any arbitrary text separating two citations (there is a popup menu in the format that gives some the options semicolon, comma, space, and comma with no space).

Jon
Sonny Software

Yes that was what I thought too. So in order to "connect" citations like
that you'll have to copy over the cit's one at a time and add in
the text yourselv: ok I can live with that.

Thanks all the same