On 23.10.2007, at 17:22, François Briatte wrote:
> 'Of course it makes sense that the container for 'incollection' would
> be 'collection' ;)'
>
> Yes, this is what biblatex suggests. I have tried the
> book/incollection combination, which is my usual coding too, but
> biblatex is not rendering the 'book' part properly, so I have switched
> to 'proceedings' (which is fine and rather consistent anyway, many
> collective books start as workshops).
So why not change how 'book' is printed. The whole point about
biblatex is that these things can be changed easily.
simon
>
> Thanks for the comments
>
> On 21/10/2007, James Howison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't use BibLatex, so YRMV, but for 'edited book chapters' in
>> books where there are different authors for each chapter (ie the book
>> is a collection of articles) I've always used 'incollection' and just
>> 'book' without authors but with editors for the container item.
>> Perhaps try that before creating new bibtex types ...
>>
>> @incollection{author2007some-edited-boo,
>> Author = {Author, Article},
>> Crossref = {2007some-edited-boo},
>> Pages = {1-25},
>> Title = {An article in the book}}
>>
>> @book{2007some-edited-boo,
>> Editor = {editor, First and editor, Second},
>> Publisher = {Sage Publications},
>> Title = {Some edited book},
>> Year = {2007}}
>>
>> Of course it makes sense that the container for 'incollection' would
>> be 'collection' ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2007, at 6:39 AM, François Briatte wrote:
>>
>>> I asked here because BibDesk does not have a 'collection' type,
>>> which
>>> seems the only way to refer to an edited book (example below) with
>>> biblatex.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the precision though!
>>>
>>>>> E.g. Smith, John and Smith, Ann (2003) The Typical Collective
>>>>> Book,
>>>>> London, Routledge.
>>>
>>> Fr.
>>>
>>> On 21/10/2007, Alex Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>>>> Although this is not the best place to ask questions related to
>>>> BibTeX (better: the macostex list) in general here is the
>>>> description
>>>> from btxdoc.pdf (the guide to bibtex):
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> proceedings: The proceedings of a conference. Required fields:
>>>> title,
>>>> year.
>>>> Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, address, month,
>>>> organization, publisher, note.
>>>> ----
>>>>
>>>> Collections in the way you describe them are usually just
>>>> referred to
>>>> as "books" or "booklets", as far as I am aware of.
>>>> But if you are using biblatex you are in a more flexible
>>>> environment
>>>> anyway, so as long as you do not have to collaborate on papers I
>>>> would not worry too much about the strictness of the bibtex-system.
>>>> (others may disagree on this)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 19.10.2007 um 21:31 schrieb François Briatte:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Biblatex refers to 'collection' for edited books where chapters
>>>>> have
>>>>> different authors. Is this the same as 'proceeding'? This is
>>>>> what I
>>>>> use when I have such books, even though they are not proceedings
>>>>> most
>>>>> of the time.
>>>>>
>>>>> E.g. Smith, John and Smith, Ann (2003) The Typical Collective
>>>>> Book,
>>>>> London, Routledge.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers, Fr.
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