The current APA Style template for "Author + Year citations" (i.e., parenthetic or in-text citations) posted on the Wiki has a discrepancy.
When a source has three, four or five authors, ALL names are included in the citation on first reference. [Subsequent references may be concatenated to the first author and "et al."] The citation always uses the shortened form when there are six or more names. (See p. 208 in the APA style manual, 5th edition.) The current template posted on the Bibdesk Wiki automatically abbreviates all citations with three or more authors. Since.... 1. all citations have first references, but may not have subsequent references; and 2. it's easier to remove names from the citation than to locate and retype them, I've updated the template below to properly format the first reference to a particular source. -Cloy (<$publications><$autho...@count=0?><?$autho...@count=1?>< $authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, <?$autho...@count=2?>< $authors.lastna...@firstobject/> & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, <? $autho...@count=3?><$authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, < $authors.lastna...@secondobject/>, & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, <?$autho...@count=4?><$authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, < $authors.lastna...@secondobject/>, <$authors.lastna...@thirdobject/>, & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, <?$autho...@count=5?>< $authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, <$authors.lastna...@secondobject/>, < $authors.lastna...@thirdobject/>, <$authors.lastna...@fourthobject/>, & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, <?$autho...@count?>< $authors.lastna...@firstobject/> et al., </$autho...@count?>< $fields.Year/></$publications>) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
