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Re: What do you do if there is no publication date?
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Author: Dr CM FitzGerald
Posted: Mon, 31 Jan 2006 16:45:00 -0800
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I use version 11 too, but the solution may differ in earlier versions of
RM.
1) Select from the Menu: Tools, Field and Type Edit
2) The left hand column, entitled "Reference Type Edit, lists all of the
reference types available, and gives you the opportunity to select those
you wish to include in your database by checking the box beside them.
The reference type that you wish to edit should be highlighted (or
selected from the pull down menu at top right); for instance, I do not
have date as a mandatory field in the "Unpublished Work" Reference Type.
However, you can select any other type or types from which you wish to
remove mandatory dating (or any other mandatory field come to that).
The only caveat here is that Ref Man defaults to a "Generic" field type
unless a field type has been explicitly defined in your output style.
This means that unless you make a change holus bolus (for all undefined
types) using the "Generic" definition, you may have to define specific
fields yourself (this has been the subject of discussion before on this
list (Menu: Tools, Bibliography, Open Output Style, Bibliography Tab,
then consult context sensitive Help)).
3) The right hand column, entitled "Field Label Edit", lists all of the
field labels that have been checked for I(nclusion) within that
Reference Type. You should uncheck the other box, which indicates to
Ref Man the
M(andatory) fields that must be filled out, against the "Date, Primary"
field.
Note that for this to work you must first open your data base with full
access permission rights (Menu: File, Open Data Base, and ensure that
you select the "Read-Write Exclusive" option in the pull down selection
field in the bottom left corner). This is a damned annoying thing that
must be done every time you want to edit terms etc. in Version 11. If
you fail to do this, the "Field and Type Edit" menu selection will be
greyed out.
Hopefully, some option to retain the permission rights selected will be
offered in Version 12.
Hope this is understandable,
Charles
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Dr Charles M FitzGerald
Research Coordinator
Department of Anthropology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4L9
(905) 525-9140, ext 26539
Fax: 905-522-5993
"cfitzg"
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Fitzgerald "mailto:cfitzg"
Behalf Of "Flynn"
Sent: January 30, 2006 8:02 PM
To: "cfitzgerald2"
Subject: <RefMan> What do you do if there is no publication date?
We are trying to enter records into Reference Manager 11 for several
items. Unfortunately, many of the items do not have a publication date
since they are draft versions or working papers (20-30 years old with no
date on them). Since the date field is required in either the YYYY or
the MM/DD/YYYY format, we are unable to save the record. We have tried
to utilize the "Other" portion of the date field by entering "n.d." or
"no date," but this also required a date to be entered in the field.
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what did you do to solve it,
or is there no solution?
Thanks,
Rosemary
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