More Control Output of Individual Resources
Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 4:20 pm
My situation:
I'm dissertating. I have hundreds of citations from sundry disciplines. Moreover, my institution neither adheres to a standard style guide (loosely based on Turabian) nor publishes a style-guide in a Format for biblio-manager.
My problem:
My problem is with the Formats Manager and trying to control the various kinds of resources, their various types, and my idiosyncratic style-guide. I would like to have more control at a micro level (i.e., individual bibliographic item) rather than the macro level (bibliographic type). Here's a common sequence of events:
1.) I find a problem with the format of a scanned item X.
2.) I alter the universal output for that type in Formats Manager such that X is now formatted correctly upon scan.
3.) Other items Y, Q, L, etc., are now formatted incorrectly.
The solution I'd like is to override the Formats Manager for certain resources in such a way that a re-scan does revert back to incorrect (as the "Format Citation" feature currently does).
Alternative solution:
1.) I want to enter each individual bibliography item formatted perfectly according to my style-guide.
2.) Each individual bibliographic item will have three formats:
2A.) First-time in text.
2B.) Second-time in text.
2C.) Bibliography
* This is similar to ibidem's "alternate" citation which, as I understand it, allows such control for any particular bibliographic item. (http://www.notabene.com/brochures/ibidem.html)
* Bookends will then handle determining which is the first, where Ibid. should be used, and determining which resources belong in the bibliography. I handle every formatting detail at the level of the individual bibliographic item *RATHER THAN* at the level of universal bibliographic type.
Thanks!
I'm dissertating. I have hundreds of citations from sundry disciplines. Moreover, my institution neither adheres to a standard style guide (loosely based on Turabian) nor publishes a style-guide in a Format for biblio-manager.
My problem:
My problem is with the Formats Manager and trying to control the various kinds of resources, their various types, and my idiosyncratic style-guide. I would like to have more control at a micro level (i.e., individual bibliographic item) rather than the macro level (bibliographic type). Here's a common sequence of events:
1.) I find a problem with the format of a scanned item X.
2.) I alter the universal output for that type in Formats Manager such that X is now formatted correctly upon scan.
3.) Other items Y, Q, L, etc., are now formatted incorrectly.
The solution I'd like is to override the Formats Manager for certain resources in such a way that a re-scan does revert back to incorrect (as the "Format Citation" feature currently does).
Alternative solution:
1.) I want to enter each individual bibliography item formatted perfectly according to my style-guide.
2.) Each individual bibliographic item will have three formats:
2A.) First-time in text.
2B.) Second-time in text.
2C.) Bibliography
* This is similar to ibidem's "alternate" citation which, as I understand it, allows such control for any particular bibliographic item. (http://www.notabene.com/brochures/ibidem.html)
* Bookends will then handle determining which is the first, where Ibid. should be used, and determining which resources belong in the bibliography. I handle every formatting detail at the level of the individual bibliographic item *RATHER THAN* at the level of universal bibliographic type.
Thanks!