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RE: author/date sort problem
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Author: D Price
Posted: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:25:00 -0800
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Hi Mahesh
I have been told that this is a bug which can be dealt with by the
following rather tiresome workaround, which I haven't yet had time to
try:
The bug is triggered by having entered first names as well as surnames
in the author filed, such as 'Smith, Peter' instead of 'Smith,P.'
Apparently if I use the global edit function (if you don't know how to
use this, I can send you instructions) to edit all of my author names in
this way (i.e. lose the first name information) then the author/date
sort will work properly, including in the in-text citations. I haven't
tried this yet, as I have over 200 authors in about 12 databases, and it
will take me a few hours to edit them all, I think. I have been taking
special care to enter all the first names for years now...
If this doesn't work, then another workaround suggested to me for the
in-text citations was to manually order them in the order that I want
them in the text, and then choose 'citation order' for the format for
the in-text citations.
For the bibliography, if I remove the 'field codes' (with the 'remove
field codes button) then I get the bibliography generated as ordinary
text, and I can then manually re-sort but this is obviously time
consuming, although not too bad, because it is only an issue where I
have more than one citation from the same author.
Otherwise, I think your excel solution might work, and if all else fails
I will try this.
Many thanks,
Debbie
-----Original Message-----
From: "listmaster"
"mailto:listmaster"
On Behalf Of "Deshpande"
Sent: 15 July 2005 22:10
To: "RIS-List"
Subject: RE: <RefMan> author/date sort problem
One solution could be to export these references to a xcel or something
like that.
Next, sort bu date and author in excel. For this order, create a new
field (say) sortid. Save the sorted results.
Next import back in ref man, with the new sorted field.
I haven't tried this, but may potentially work...
We have the same problem, that we are trying to address.
Good luck!
Mahesh
-----Original Message-----
From: "listmaster"
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D.Price "d.price"
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:10 PM
To: "RIS-List"
Subject: <RefMan> author/date sort problem
Hi
Can anyone help with this problem - Refman tech support have said not,
and that there is no known workaround, but maybe someone out there knows
different.
I am just finalising my PhD thesis, and when I generate the bibliography
I have two problems (using a Harvard-style style).
First, within the text citations, when I am citing more than one work by
the same author, it is putting the authors in alphabetical order but not
in date order - the date order is random.
In the generated bibliography I have the same problem - the authors are
in order, but the dates are random. I am drawing on a number of
databases for the bibliography (about ten). The software is recognising
that several references are by the same author, but not getting the
dates within that sorted.
I am using my own style, based on the American Psychological
Association, but I have now tried to generate this bibliography with a
number of different output styles that come with Refman, and I always
have the same problem. Any help would be much appreciated as I am
otherwise facing very substantial amendments by hand - and indeed I
cannot even work out a way to resolve the in-text citation problem
manually, since you can't change the order (it re-sets when you print).
Many thanks Debbie
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