I want to cite an article in a periodical (like the NGS Quarterly), and I'd like to use SourceWriter. What's the best way to do this? (I ask after consulting the user guide and online help and searching the LUG archives, maybe not very proficiently.)
First, I'm curious why there is not a source template for articles, since they are a very common thing to cite. If I choose the source template for Journals, I'm not sure how to use it. If I put the name of the journal (e.g., NGS Quarterly) as the name of the master source, where do I put the name of the specific article? Also, it doesn't seem to make sense to list an author for the journal as a whole. (I don't want to cite the journal as a whole, although this may be a lumper-vs.-splitter problem.) On the other hand, if I put the name of the article as the name of the new master source, where do I put the name of the journal and the volume, pages, and date? Or should I make a master source for the journal or the newspaper and put all the details about the specific article I'm citing in the source detail screen? I considered trying to create a new source template for articles, but couldn't figure out how to do that. On the "Add a New Master Source" screen, in the "choose the type of source from this list" box, there is an entry "*Add a Basic Style source," but that only allows me to add a new master source using the basic style, not to create a new source template. I think my best option is to use the "basic style" source template, put the article title in Title, a perhaps shortened form of the title in "Source List Name," and the information about the journal/newspaper, volume, page and date in Publication Facts. Are there problems in doing it that way? Paul Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
