No, the \cite just cites a single source. I don't see this is part of
the actual citation. The parenthetical information looks more like
another citatino to me, something like
\cite{Rowley485} (quoting \cite{Rowley483}). ...
Why make it more complicated than it is?
Christiaan
On 11 Feb 2008, at 11:10 PM, Conor McDonough wrote:
I think what I have written in Applescript thus far is similar in
concept to this CiteinPages tool, although I built my own relatively
crude GUI.
Another question that I had is whether "\cite {}" fields in LaTex/
BibTex can include information in addition to the citekey. One of
the tricky parts of automating legal citation is that often there is
other text in a given citation in addition to the main citation.
For example, in an article in a legal journal a very simple citation
to a case would look like this:
Hendrick Hudson Central Sch. Dist. v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176 (1982).
the first bit of text is the name of the case, the "458" is the
volume of the journal ( the "reporter" as the legal field calls
them), "U.S." is the abbreviated name of the journal, and the "176"
is the first page of the journal. The "1982" contained in
parentheses is the year in which the case was decided. That seems
to be very simple for the \cite{} to deal with. The tricky part
comes when there is more info. For example, in the same article, a
subsequent citation to the same case might include more information:
Rowley, 485 U.S. at 186 (quoting Rowley v. Hendrick Hudson Cent.
Sch. Dist., 483 F. Supp. 528, 534 (1980)). The trial court Judge
held that a free, appropriate public education meant “that each
handicapped child be given an opportunity to achieve his full
potential commensurate with the opportunity provided to other
children.” Rowley, 483 F. Supp. at 534.
Here, "Rowley" is the short form of the name of the case, "485" is
the volume of the journal, "U.S." is the abbreviated name of the
journal, and the "at 186" is a reference to the specific page number
to which the author is citing. The parenthetical that follows the
citation, "(quoting..." refers to the fact that the work the author
is citing in fact directly quotes a secondary source. The next
sentence that follows the parenthetical is still part of the
citation, and contains part of the quoted subject matter that is the
subject of this citation. The final piece is a short form citation
to the original source from which the quote was taken. It is this
type of complex citation that makes legal citation so frustrating!
If it were possible to add more information to the \cite{} fields,
it could be possible to label parenthetical information, postnotes
and other references and have a set of rules that formats the
contents of the \cite{} field properly. Is this something that the
LaTex/BibTex system allows?
Hi, without having had only the smallest insight in law
practitioner's
citation habits there is one thing that comes to my mind. It's just
one
thing that might possibly be helpful to your efforts: CiteInPages
<http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages> is also relying on
AppleScript to achieve goals similar to the ones you are mentioning
in
Apple's Pages (which is able at least to export to MS .doc).
Best, Stephan
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