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Author: Jeff Wood    Posted: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:21:08 GMT
Dear all, Hi; I'm new to Ref Man, and apologise if the questions I'm asking are all very old ones, but I've not been able to find answers in the manual or anywhere else. I've got several questions on different topics, so I'll send them separately in case they branch out into different threads. There are things I'd like to do with the display and printing of the abbreviated reference list; does anybody know if these are possible?: 1. Change the number of authors (primary) displayed in the list. 2. Display the periodical, but in (standard) abbreviated form. 3. Change the width of some columns, AND have this retained upon printing. Printing the abb.ref.list I find very useful, and could put together an output style with the required info, but the problem there is that I need to include the title, but not the full title as it's often too long - having the title cut off (as when you print the abbreviated ref list) is actually very handy, but I can't see any way to do something similar in an output style - any thoughts? Thanks, Jeff

RE: abbreviated reference list
Author: Geoff Gwillym    Posted: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:36:47 -0000
Hi Jeff Can you not just amend the output style to print the abbreviated title? ie in the title properties, likewise the number of authors, etc? Regards, another Geoff -----Original Message----- From: "listmaster" "mailto:listmaster" On Behalf Of Jeff Wood Sent: 05 March 2004 09:21 To: "ris-list" Subject: <RefMan> abbreviated reference list Dear all, Hi; I'm new to Ref Man, and apologise if the questions I'm asking are all very old ones, but I've not been able to find answers in the manual or anywhere else. I've got several questions on different topics, so I'll send them separately in case they branch out into different threads. There are things I'd like to do with the display and printing of the abbreviated reference list; does anybody know if these are possible?: 1. Change the number of authors (primary) displayed in the list. 2. Display the periodical, but in (standard) abbreviated form. 3. Change the width of some columns, AND have this retained upon printing. Printing the abb.ref.list I find very useful, and could put together an output style with the required info, but the problem there is that I need to include the title, but not the full title as it's often too long - having the title cut off (as when you print the abbreviated ref list) is actually very handy, but I can't see any way to do something similar in an output style - any thoughts? Thanks, Jeff

RE: abbreviated reference list
Author: Popham, Karyn    Posted: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:42:08 -0600
Dear Jeff, As far as I know, RefMan will ONLY allow you to display the first author. Which means they really ought to change the "Authors" label to "First Author"! It scares the beejeezus out of people who think the label is accurate. As for the periodical, the only thing I know to do--and this is definitely a kluge--is to use the Term Dictionary to change all occurrences of the full journal name to the abbreviated form in the database. Note that this does not screw up output styles that require the full name--not as long as the abbreviated form is linked to the full form in the Term Dictionary. But the display seems to pick up what is showing in the individual entry. Now, I don't know about everyone else, but I wound up having to make sure I had the abbreviated form in the Term Dictionary both with and without periods. (I came up with a fast way to do this AFTER doing most of it the journal-by-journal way!) I would pick the version that imports most frequently--in my case, no periods. (It's also cleaner to look at.) This is especially important if you want to sort things by journal name (which we do when doing a library run, for instance): AIDS Educ Prev comes before AIDS Educ.Prev. comes before AIDS Education & Prevention comes before AIDS Education and Prevention in a simple ASCII sort. Only ways I know to truncate the article title would be to export your list in tab-delimited format and dump it into a Word table with set column widths (you can jack with the right text margin by moving it into the boundaries of the next cell or beyond--the part outside the cell won't actually print) or into an Excel spreadsheet--probably the latter--and print it from there. Anyone else have any bright ideas? Cheers, Karyn Popham Reference Wrangler Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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