On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
Perhaps Conan Albrecht can modify BibDeskToWord to allow for separate
templates for first and later citations. Until then, perhaps you can use the
following trick: insert a \cite citation for the first citation, and \citet
for a later citation, because BibDeskToWord does allow separate templates
for those two different commands. You can insert different citation styles
using the citation drawer.
Christiaan
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