Multiple similar citations / Bibliography sorting

[Peta]

Dear Jon,

thank you very much for this exccellent software and the immediate support! I have a few questions:

(1) When scanning a manucript with multiple citations from the same author and the same year, for example:

...as previously stated [Keller et al., 2004, #2750]. Moreover, Keller et al. [%Keller et al., 2004, # 2278] suggest...

I get the following result:

...as previously stated (Keller et al., 2004b). Moreover, Keller et al., (2004a) suggest...

Keller, G., Adatte, T., Stinnesbeck, W., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Fucugauchi, J.U., Kramar, U., Stüben, D., 2004a, Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 97(1), 1-6.
Keller, G., Adatte, T., Stinnesbeck, W., Stüben, D., Berner, Z., Harting, M., 2004b, More evidence that the Chicxulub impact predates the K/T mass extinction. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 39(7), 1127-1144.

Hence, Bookends obviously uses the unique ID to format the order of citations (?).

However, in most scientific journals, the first occurrence of a paper in a manuscript is indicated by the "a" and the following occurrence of papers from the same author and year by "b" and so on...

Is it possible to include a solution to this problem in a future version of Bookends or is there a s simple workaround?

(2) Many journals prefer the: "1. author – number of authors – year – other authors" sorting succession so that single author papers are listed first in the bibliography.

Is it possible to implement this feature in upcoming versions of Bookends?

Thank you very much in advance and best regards!

Peter

[Jon]

Hi,

The order of the citations (a, b) is dependent on the sort order in the bibliography, not the order they are cited in the manuscript.

As to the second point -- I can't think of an easy way to do that at the moment, but I'll think about it.

Jon
Sonny Software

[nicka]

When scanning a manucript with multiple citations from the same author and the same year, for example:

...
I get the following result:

...as previously stated (Keller et al., 2004b). Moreover, Keller et al., (2004a) suggest...

Keller, G., Adatte, T., Stinnesbeck, W., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Fucugauchi, J.U., Kramar, U., Stüben, D., 2004a, Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 97(1), 1-6.
Keller, G., Adatte, T., Stinnesbeck, W., Stüben, D., Berner, Z., Harting, M., 2004b, More evidence that the Chicxulub impact predates the K/T mass extinction. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 39(7), 1127-1144.
...

However, in most scientific journals, the first occurrence of a paper in a manuscript is indicated by the "a" and the following occurrence of papers from the same author and year by "b" and so on..

The way Bookends works now is the correct behaviour for my field, linguistics, (a science, more or less) as far as I have been able to find out.

That is not to say that other sciences don't do this the way Peta says, but it does suggest that Bookends should keep the current behaviour, even if the other order is added as an option at some stage in the future.