Sonny Software

Dear Experts,

first of all I want to express my disappointment about the fact that I am not able to help myself.
Usually I am not that slow when it comes to computer issues.
But even after studying the user guide and this forum I did not find a proper solution.

I try to demonstrate my problems at this random excerpt of a new york times article.
After adding two "in-text citations" from the same source it looks like this:

It controlled the game with both lines {Schiller, 2011, #39003}, on offense and defense, putting on a clinic in power football. It ran all over a defense known for its ability to stop the run. Alabama so dominated that it reminded sports fans that N.B.A. games were also available for viewing Monday night {Schiller, 2011, #39003}, and that Notre Dame’s best chance for a national title is now in women’s basketball.

After scanning it is supposed to look like this:

It controlled the game with both lines (Schiller 2011:67-68), on offense and defense, putting on a clinic in power football. It ran all over a defense known for its ability to stop the run. Alabama so dominated that it reminded sports fans that N.B.A. games were also available for viewing Monday night (:90-92), and that Notre Dame’s best chance for a national title is now in women’s basketball.

Questions:
1) How to manually add the page numbers?
2) How to adjust that the repeated citation from the same source looks like this?
3) How to adjust the Font type and Letter size of the citation after scanning (Times New Roman, Size: 12) so that it will fit to the spare text.

I am using Bookends 11.2.8.
I hope I was able to express my problems properly and would be very thankful for your suggestions.

Sincerely
Daniel

First, update to 11.3.4, no reason to use an old version.

Second, please take the Bookends pdf tutorial and refer to the User Guide ("Formatting"), both in the Help menu. They tell you all you need to know, and answer your questions (and many more you no doubt have) in detail, with examples.

Third: use Cited Pages to add page numbers ( {temp cite@67-68} ). Tell Bookends what to output for repeated citations in the format, in the Citation Options tab. Set the font type and size for bibliographies in Bookends preferences.

Jon
Sonny Software

Dear Jon,

thanks for your advise. I updated the program and was able to solve the problem with "cited pages", but I am still struggling with the other two problems:

1) I changed all four options under "Preferences" (Bibliographies, References, Lists & Notecards) to Times New Roman size 12.
Still after scanning the Citation is Times New Roman but size 13. Where else could I possibly change this?

2) Under Biblio-Formats Manager-Citation Options-Common Settings

I entered ":" (without the quote) in "For repeated citation use" and "Before". Now the first quotation is perfect but for the second one bookends gives me two colons:



If I remove the colon from "For repeated citation use" both disappear.
I would be very thankful if you could help me one more time with this.

Sincerely
Daniel

1. Either you're using Mellel (which handles styles itself) or the references had the style set when you entered them (e.g. copy/paste). If the latter, you can restore the default with Global Change.

2. I don't know what the citation looked like.

This forum is not for tech support.

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Please contact tech support directly (support@sonnysoftware.com).

Jon
Sonny Software