On Friday, January 04, 2008, at 12:04PM, "Ingrid Giffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On 1/4/08 12:51 PM, "Jason Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This is confusing me, actually, so this is a timely thread. Can
>> I ask the experts' help here?
>>
>> For example I have a reference to a book with two editors:
>> here's the edited raw reference.
>>
>> @book{harveyschultz06a,
>> Address = {Cambridge, UK},
>> Author = {Harvey, Paul B and Schultz, Celia E},
>> Dewey-Call-Number = {937.04},
>> Genre = {Religion and politics},
>> Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
>> Title = {Religion in republican Italy},
>> Url = {http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2007296031-d.html},
>> Volume = {v. 33},
>> Year = {2006},
>> }}
>>
>>
>> The 'authors' are actually editors but that's how it came from
>> the Library search. If I move them to the editor field and
>> create a 'child' of one of the chapters, it fills in the Title
>> with 'Religion in republican Italy' and leaves Booktitle blank.
>> I can't change the Title because of the cross-reference.
>
>I have had this happen too: The parent title goes into the crossref child's
>title rather than into the booktitle.
>
>Is the parent title supposed to be in its booktitle field instead? This I
>suppose is logical but counterintuitive, since I think of the title field as
>being the default, and only think of the overarching booktitle when children
>come into play, sometimes after the fact.
You did search the help, right?
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_72.html
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ#I_don.27t_get_what_the_Crossref_field_does_.2F_I_don.27t_think_the_way_BibDesk_handles_Crossrefs_is_very_smart._Couldn.27t_that_be_changed.3F
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