CiteInPages 0.97 is now two BibDesk Applescripts for converting working citations in Pages v. 3 to formatted in-text citations and bibliographies. The download includes the original "CiteInPages numbered" script for numbered citations and bibliographies and a new "CiteInPages author-date" script for author-date in-text citations and alphabetical bibliographies.
This is the first release of the author-date script, so I'd be very grateful for additional testing and feedback from anyone interested in that style. It does pretty much what you'd expect: working citations containing cite keys are dragged into Pages from BibDesk during editing and the script converts them to author-date in-text citations and inserts an alphabetical bibliography in the document. The script tries to handle references with matching names and years along APA guidelines, though there are a number of permutations. Briefly, for papers in the same year that have matching first author last names but different initials, if there is not a difference in the names and numbers of other authors that would distinguish standard in-text citations, first author initials are used in the citations. If the first author is identical and the papers would not otherwise be distinguished by other author names and numbers, in-text citations are distinguished by appending "a", "b", "c", etc. to the year. Because there's no way to provide information from the script to BibDesk prior to the templating process to indicate what letters should be appended to the year in the final bibliography entries, the script adds a note at the end of any entries that need a letter appended to their year, indicating what the letter should be, and alerts the user in a dialog at the end of formatting that one or more references need to be manually edited. This should hopefully be a minimal effort, as there are normally few if any references with both name and year overlaps. The documentation and download instructions have been updated to reflect the new script. CiteInPages and documentation is available under a BSD license from http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages Jim Harrison University of Virginia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
