On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:51, Giorgio Arcara wrote: > Hello, > > I need (I think it's a pretty common problem) to insert my citations > in APA style. > The templates I found on Wiki works well, but every time I insert a > citation, all authors are listed (according to APA style, if authors > are from three five, only the first citation should include all > authors, while [Subsequent citations in the same document may refer to > the article by the principal author only plus "et al."]). I found a > template in a older post (Correction to APA Style template on Wiki) > but it didn't work (I use the app BibdesktoWord for exporting the > reference to my word documents). > Basically my problem is to make conditional tagging (after the first > time, change template for citation). Could anyone suggest me how to > solve this problem? (or at least indicate a reference for better > understating template syntax?) > > Thanks > > > ___________ > > Giorgio Arcara
A template can never know by itself whether it's used for a first or later citation, that should be obvious. The only way to even theoretically have this information, is when you use some kind of program to parse the document and insert citations in a context sensitive way. Such as bibtex. In fact, this is not only theoretically true, bibtex does have some of this capability to do this through AppleScript. So this is not a limitation of templates, it's a limitation on the method you use to write your documents (i.e. wysiwyg). There was a set of AppleScripts or an app that could do this for a specific editor, perhaps BibFuse or CiteInPages. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
