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I am quite disappointed by the complexity of Bookends. I just started using it (together with Mellel).
I want to have references like (Anderson 1991: 23) where 23 is a page number. As I make several references to Anderson 1991, I want a possibility to insert different page numbers.
Could anyone explain me how to do that?

Thanks in advance!

If you want total control over the output, you have to expect some degree of complexity. But in fact, this is simple. Look up cited pages in the user guide. You want to use a temp citation style like this

{temp cite info@23}

And in the format you tell Bookends what you want output before and/or after the cited pages.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hello Jon!
Thanks for your reply.
Could you please tell me where is the user guide?

In the menubar (the list of words across the top of the screen) click on Help. The user guide is the third or fourth choice in the resulting menu.

Thanks for all of you.
After suffering some hours with the Bookends, now it seems that it generate the bibliography as I want it.

One more question (I hope the last one):
What to do if van to get citations as (Smith 1956). Now I have (Smith, 1956) with a comma.

Assuming the format is set up for Author-Date, you'd use the popup menu to tell Bookends to put just a space between author and year.

Please spend 10 minutes with the section on formatting in the User Guide (Help menu). It will help enormously.

Jon
Sonny Software

Dear Jon,

I promise I will. But things in Bookends should be MUCH MORE intuitive. People do not like to search for things in User guides. Cf. the above-mentioned problem. Only the minority of references are of Author-Date type. In academic writing is just much more usual to use the Author-Date-Page number type.

Still I think Bookends is great, and therefore I will use it

belabookend wrote:Only the minority of references are of Author-Date type. In academic writing is just much more usual to use the Author-Date-Page number type.

Actually, not in scientific academic writing, where that is rarely if ever used. But regardless, that's what cited pages are for. You have to tell Bookends what the pages are. I don't know what is easier than

{temp cite@45-47}

That is Author-Date-Page number. Since the page number will change from cite to cite, it can't be hardwired into the database. It is indicated in the temp citation.

Now if you did want to hardwire a page number in a scanned citation, that's easily achievable, too, with a custom citation. But I don't think that's what you're trying to do.

Jon
Sonny Software