Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> On Mar 29, 2005, at 1:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Are you talking about a short reference list already inserted in a
> > paper as a reference list or about a reference list that is being
> > created from the entire database?
>
> The former.
>
> The choices I make here will affect the GUI for it, BTW.  Just think of
> how you'd configure the formatting for two different types of
> references:
>
> 1)  A book, where primary sort key and first field is the creator name,
> and secondary would be "Anonymous"
> 2)  A legal case, where primary sort key and first field is that record
> title (Doe v. Smith)
>

I assume that the examples given above would also cover the case where the
"author" is an organisation, e.g. a government or company report. I think
there are two possibilities for handling this and I am not sure which route
you have chosen to follow:
1. Use the organisation (or an abbreviation) as the creator name and sort as
normal.
2. Leave the creator name blank in which case the sort algorithm will have
to recognise the material type and if necessary use the organisation as the
primary sort key (and of course for display in the citation).

>From a user's point I think the second method is preferable, but from the
coders' perspective more involved.

Regards,
Vince


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