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Limitations of output style configuration / feature request
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Author: Lars Bauer
Posted: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:58:10 -0500
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Dear all,
In law and humanities styles it is often necessary to use complex and
reference type specific citations in the main text and/or the footnotes.
While EndNote can handle output styles for bibliographies pretty good,
the options for in-text citations and footnotes have some serious
limitations.
I'd appreciate to see the following improvements and wonder if other
users miss these options as well:
1. In-text citations
a) Possibility to define specific templates for each reference type (as
in bibliography and footnote section). Books, journal articles, court
cases, codes, patents, maps etc. don't fit in just one template. One
could possibly add an option to choose a default template for all types
(e.g. for
author-date-styles)
b) Repeated citations: option to use short form of the reference
(including title/short title) for subsequent citations (as in footnote
section)
(for an example of complex in-text citations see, e.g.,
<http://relevancy.bger.ch/cgi-bin/JumpCGI?id=BGE-133-III-97&system=clir#
id92
68>, pp. 697 et seq.; this is a judgment but it is quite representative
68>for
citation styles in Swiss/European legal scholarship).
2. Footnotes
a) Include options for handling ambiguous citations (as in in-text
citations section), e.g. possibility to include initials/first names or
short titles only when citations are ambiguous. I don't understand, why
this feature is available for in-text citations but not for footnotes.
b) Keep the possibility to define type specific templates and the
options for repeated citations.
3. Suggestion for all sections
It would make things easier if style definitions provided some
if-then-else-functionality. Or does anybody know how to get the
following
result:
If there is a volume: Author, Title, Journal Volume (Year) Pages [i.e.
brackets, no comma]
If there is no volume: Author, Title, Journal Year, Pages [i.e. no
brackets, comma]
Thanks,
Lars
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