Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22654
Format of bibliographic reference inserted into text needs to be more general
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:02 UTC
When a bibliographic reference is inserted into the text, the formatting options are too limiting. For example, if a the short name for a reference is set to Doe (2003), then the only possible references in the text are Doe (2003), (Doe (2003)), [Doe (2003)], etc. However, some journals (notably the Astrophysical Journal) require authors to vary the format of the reference depending on the context. For ApJ ther are two possibilities: 1. ... as shown by Doe (2003). 2. ... it is well known that 1+1=2 (Doe 2003). Note the subtle difference in the way the parentheses are applied. If the short name were set to "Doe (2003)" then the second case would appear incorrectly as (Doe (2003)) when additional parentheses are added around the reference. If the short name were set to "(Doe 2003)", then the first case would be incorrect: (Doe 2003) vs. Doe (2003). It is not possible to make two different bibliographic entries with these two different formats since then the reference will then appear in the bibliography twice. It would be very helpful if the references in the text could be formatted in different ways for a single bibliographic source. I would like to see some very general formatting as is allowed for the list of references in the bibliography itself, but applied to individual bibliographic references in the text.
Metcalf These are useful suggestions. Could you check the Bibliographic Project's User Requirments document at http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList and check that the proposals listed properly cover your concerns. If not please suggest additions or amendments and I will update the document. Also could you think about how the User Inferface could present these options when the user does an Insert Citation - any ideas would be welcome. Is there any way via document context the the most likely format was presented ?
> These are useful suggestions. Could you check the Bibliographic > Project's User Requirments document at > http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList > and check that the proposals listed properly cover your concerns. If > not > please suggest additions or amendments and I will update the > document. I believe that my concerns are adequately listed in this document. > > Also could you think about how the User Inferface could present these > > options when the user does an Insert Citation - any ideas would be > welcome. Is there any way via document context the the most likely > format was presented ? I would like to see a way to individually format each citation in the text using a very general interface like the one used to set up the reference style in the bibliography. These formats would need to be storable since each document might have two or three styles that would be used throughout, and I would not want to be forced to define a format every time I insert a citation. I'd like to set up two or three or whatever and the then be able to select the format for each citation as they are inserted. It might be possible to select the most likely format from the context, but I would think that this might be difficuldt and unreliable. I would rather be able to define a few and then select the format.
You may want to check the (documentation for the) natbib package for latex/bibtex, which offers a comprehensive set of commands for all possible uses of the author-date citation style. For the user interface, I'd like to see an extra drop-down field titled "style:" offering these variants. Also, natbib offers ultimate configurability in terms of the appearance of both the individual reference and the bibliography.
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