On Jan 8, 2013, at 13:59, James Harrison <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Dr. Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> I think it would be reasonable to have at least one default choice that 
>>> allows authorOrEditor, as many people will have reference lists that may 
>>> include articles and books, and the books may have editors rather than 
>>> authors. 
>> 
>> I can second this. Many times I fill in the author field with editor's name, 
>> generate the cite key and autofile name, and then delete the name in the 
>> author field. 
> 
> 
> Just FYI, this is relatively easy to fix in the interim by going to both the 
> auto file and cite key panels in preferences, clicking "Advanced," and then 
> changing %a to %p in the format string (leave everything else the same). This 
> will drop back to using the editor name if there is no author name.
> 

Thanks, that's useful. I didn't realize that %p would go to editor if no author 
is found!

> Jim Harrison
> UVA

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