Zitat von Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When dealing with reference lists, is the first field always the sort > key? > > For example, in a typical reference list, the creator name will be the > sort key. If there is no creator, there needs to be rules to specify > substitutes. For a book, it might be to substitute the phrase > "Anonymous." For an article, it might be to substitute the periodical > title.
For all cases I have personally encountered so far it is that easy. To be precise: RULE 1: The primary sort key is the first entry in the document's reference list. In my case this is the author(s). RULE 2: If no author is available it is replaced by N.N. (meaning Anonymous) in my case and sorted according to rule 1. So N.N. follows authors starting with N. RULE 3: If there are two or more entries with equal primary key, the secondary key is used, which is the second one displayed. For my examples Authors (Year^Edition): Title ... it is the year, sorted from older to newer. So my rules are easy to implement, except that the author(s) must be sorted correctly, that is, in my case by their family names. (See our extensive earlier discussions about name handling...) Again, other people might have more difficult rules. I don't know. Matthias Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail was sent through http://webmail.uni-jena.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
