Citation style question: "Jones (1997, 2003)"

Massachusetts user · Post by **Massachusetts user** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:06 pm

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to conform to the journal style that I need, which wants citations in "Name (date)" format, but wants multiple articles by the same author to be cited as "Name (date1, date2, date3)" etc. For example:

"Smith (1995, 2001a, 2001b)".

I know I can fake this if I move to citing references by date only (using %) and manually enter the author in the document, but the rest of my documents are not date-only in this way, and I'd be happy if the program could do the work for me.

Thanks.

Post by **Jon** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:15 pm

Hi,

The way you describe is that way to do it (so it does take a bit of manual intervention):

...Smith {%citation 1; %citation 2; %citation3}

Jon
Sonny Software

Massachusetts user · Post by **Massachusetts user** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:24 pm

Thanks for the reply. It would be nice to be able to automate this, as you can in Endnote. From the Endnote 8 manual (and in many ways I *am* happy to put Endnote behind me):

"Consecutive Citations by the Same Author
If a multiple citation includes works by the same author, some
styles request that you not repeat the author name. Check the
setting to â€œomit repeated authorsâ€

Post by **Jon** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:29 pm

Sure. I'll add it to the list of requested features (no promises, though).

Jon
Sonny Software