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Thanks for the recent update.

Is it/would it be possible to have Bookends weight the first author higher than the others in resolving citations?

While I'm writing, if I know the first author is Smith and the paper is from 2007, it is a lot faster to type {Smith, 2007} that than figure out the reference number or find it in BE to insert. But when I scan, it stops at Jones, Brown, etc, etc, Smith, etc 2007 and asks me if i want Jones 2007 or Smith 2007 one. I definitely appreciate this when there are two Smith et al. 2007s, but otherwise not as much.

Is there a pref that I missed? I have 203 unresolved citations in the current scan, and most of them are this type of ambiguity...

Thanks, Steve

Bookends will provide an alphabetized list of matches. But it could scroll automatically to one beginning with the first word entered in the temp citation (which doesn't have to be an author's name, of course). I'll think about that.

One hint -- if the first word is followed by "et al.", Bookends *will* consider it to be an author's name, and *will* scroll to the first matching reference for you. For this to work, there must be 3 or more authors (if there are 1 or 2, Bookends won't make the match).

Jon
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