On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:37 AM, P Kishor wrote: > I frequently file books and committee reports (those published by the > National Academy Press are a good example) where there is no "author" > but there are "editor"s. Since my BD generates cite_keys as %a1_%Y_u2, > the %a part goes unfilled in the cite_keys for these reports. Is there > any way to ask BD to use the author, but if author is not set then use > the editor?
%p should do this rather than %a. At least that's what the drop down for "Authors or Editors" shows. > Another question -- what is the best practice? Do folks file the > entire reports? (that is what I do, because that is how I find them). > But then, how do you cite individual papers within those reports as in > case of conf. proceedings, the reports are typically a set of papers > by indiv. authors preceded by come commentary by the editors... can I > generate indiv. cite_keys for each component paper? I realize I am > probably asking a basic BD-use question, so if this use-case is > already described somewhere, kindly point me to it. Have you tried inproceedings? I don't heavily use cross-refs, but presumably you can create a single proceedings and cross-ref a set of inproceedings. You might also explore book/inbook and incollection. The editorial comments are more problematic. These are akin to book reviews, and bibtex has never handled them well. citeproc seems likely to do a good job here. I think the best you can do is treat them as another inproceedings and reference the reviewed/commented on article manually in the title. Hmmm, maybe that's what the 'commented' type is for, although I've never used it, do others? The fields don't look hopeful. > <snip> --J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
