How to number inline custom citations?
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:16 am
I'm working on a large annotated bibliography in Nisus Writer Pro for students about sources and reference material in literary scholarship. It's also a bibliographic research and reference manual – in two parts.
In the second, non-annotated part, the references are numbered. This is achieved by enabling "Number references" in the Formats Manager and it works well.
In the first part, however, custom citations should appear in a short version, followed by the string "No. ", plus a number which corresponds to the item's number in the second part, and a closing bracket ")".
Now here is the problem: if I use a number from the Citation Options I get the number but no custom citation. If I use a custom citation I get no number!
How can I solve this problem? I need a short custom citation AND a number.
If it's not already clear what I mean, then the following example may perhaps give a rough idea of what I have in mind:
17th Century
1st part
The best Shakespeare bibliography used to be the one by Doe (John Doe: Shakespeare. 1922; No. 1.) It has now been superseded by Richard Roe's The New Shakespeare Bibliography. 1995. (No. 2.)
2nd part
1 Doe, John: Shakespeare. 32nd enlarged and revised edition. Oxford: Oxford Press 1922. 923 pages
2 Roe, Richard: The New Shakespeare Bibliography. Oxford: Oxford Press 1995. 15 vols.
In the second, non-annotated part, the references are numbered. This is achieved by enabling "Number references" in the Formats Manager and it works well.
In the first part, however, custom citations should appear in a short version, followed by the string "No. ", plus a number which corresponds to the item's number in the second part, and a closing bracket ")".
Now here is the problem: if I use a number from the Citation Options I get the number but no custom citation. If I use a custom citation I get no number!
How can I solve this problem? I need a short custom citation AND a number.
If it's not already clear what I mean, then the following example may perhaps give a rough idea of what I have in mind:
17th Century
1st part
The best Shakespeare bibliography used to be the one by Doe (John Doe: Shakespeare. 1922; No. 1.) It has now been superseded by Richard Roe's The New Shakespeare Bibliography. 1995. (No. 2.)
2nd part
1 Doe, John: Shakespeare. 32nd enlarged and revised edition. Oxford: Oxford Press 1922. 923 pages
2 Roe, Richard: The New Shakespeare Bibliography. Oxford: Oxford Press 1995. 15 vols.