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Author: Gerhard Englert
Posted: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:35:00 -0800
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Hi Debbie,
I faced the same problem and got no answer either.
If you plan to amend your work, do it only ***after*** you ended any work related to RM.
Remove all field codes (I use RM10-11) to make it a pure and clean text.
Then only you can be sure RM does not destroy your labour again.
This way is is as much labour, but at least straight forward and only a one time and never again job.
sorry for not having a better solution
Gerhard
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> 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.
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> I haven't tried this, but may potentially work...
> We have the same problem, that we are trying to address.
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> Good luck!
> Mahesh
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> 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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