On 6 Apr 2009, at 11:12 AM, Cloy Tobola wrote: > The current APA Style template for "Author + Year citations" (i.e., > parenthetic or in-text citations) posted on the Wiki has a > discrepancy. > > When a source has three, four or five authors, ALL names are included > in the citation on first reference. [Subsequent references may be > concatenated to the first author and "et al."] The citation always > uses the shortened form when there are six or more names. (See p. 208 > in the APA style manual, 5th edition.) > > The current template posted on the Bibdesk Wiki automatically > abbreviates all citations with three or more authors. > > Since.... > 1. all citations have first references, but may not have subsequent > references; and > 2. it's easier to remove names from the citation than to locate and > retype them, > > I've updated the template below to properly format the first reference > to a particular source. > > -Cloy > > > (<$publications><$autho...@count=0?><?$autho...@count=1?>< > $authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, <?$autho...@count=2?>< > $authors.lastna...@firstobject/> & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, > <? > $autho...@count=3?><$authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, < > $authors.lastna...@secondobject/>, & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, > <?$autho...@count=4?><$authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, < > $authors.lastna...@secondobject/>, <$authors.lastna...@thirdobject/>, > & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, <?$autho...@count=5?>< > $authors.lastna...@firstobject/>, <$authors.lastna...@secondobject/ > >, < > $authors.lastna...@thirdobject/>, <$authors.lastna...@fourthobject/>, > & <$authors.lastna...@lastobject/>, <?$autho...@count?>< > $authors.lastna...@firstobject/> et al., </$autho...@count?>< > $fields.Year/></$publications>)
I've changed it on the Wiki, though a bit simplified. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
