Sonny Software

I have been trying to find a way of differentiating how names are dealt with.

My issue is that I sometimes need a name as surname and initials, and sometimes as full name. For example, if a report is written by an author I need surname/initials, but if a report is authored by an organisation I need full name. I thought I might solve this problem by using the 'authors' field for personal authors and the 'editors' field for organisations, and then changing the 'others like' to 'editors' and 'full name' in the field below. But this changes it for both author and editor.

Ideally a newspaper article written by Rod Liddle (entered in the 'author' field) would be 'Liddle, R', and an article written by Associated Press (entered in the 'editors' field) would remain 'Associated Press', not 'A Press'.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Louise

From the user guide:

If the author is an institution, place a comma after the last character and Bookends will not attempt to format it when creating a bibliography. Commas elsewhere in the name will be output as entered. For example, you would enter "The American Council on Diet, Health, and Fitness" as
The American Council on Diet, Health, and Fitness,

Interesting choice of example, by the way. Influenced by this?

My reference was not related to that particular discussion, but thanks for the interesting link, Nicka

Anyone have any suggestions to the above mentioned issue?

nicka answered the question in the quote from our user guide. Simply put, end the institution's name with a comma and Bookends won't parse it, e.g.

The American Council on Diet, Health, and Fitness,

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks Nicka and Jon,

I missed your quotation, Nicka. Too busy checking out the link!