Paul, I concur with Gene Young; using Periodicals> Journal> Basic format should give you what you need. The name of the journal would be the master source; the title of the article, the author of the article, etc. is in the details screen.
The ability to create at least a "free form" source template in SourceWriter is one of my major wishes for Legacy; guess I'd better suggest it as an enhancement. Connie --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Paul Ramshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > 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
