On Thu August 25 2005 02:01, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have recently been attempting to use the Bibliographic tool in OO
> (using latest beta2 milestone on *nix).
>
> I have amassed a good size reference DB, after tweaking default field
> lengths (this should be changed, espeically title, author and book title
> fields... need to be varchar(255) or text() field).
>
> After scouring thorugh the various documentation I am at a loss to
> figure out how to quickly and efficiently use the db to insert in-line
> references APA style.
>
> I.e
>
>
> I Have
>
> Pauling, J.W.(2004) OpenSource Communities: Opening the Closed Window.
> Some Journal, 13, 111-120
>
> In the database, I have figured how to format and insert a reference apa
> style from the DB, but what I really need is a way to do in-line
> citeations apa style...
>
> i.e Take the above reference
>
> "It has been postulated that the according to realistic conflict
> theory(Shereiff,1966) that competition over realistic resources, in the
> case of the operating system industry, contracts and userbases causes
> various demonization between Firm based and Peer-commons based modes of
> production(Pauling, 2004)"
>
>
> What I need is a way to create a small shortcut that will automatically
> insert the (Pauling, 2004) in-line reference from the database at a
> couple of keypresses. I can find no easy way to do this, can someone
> suggest something.

Hi Joel,
 Since you do not seem to have received any response here, I'd recommend 
that you email the mailing list on the http://bibliographic.openoffice.org 
project.

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