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Comma before "and" in citations; multiple authors
I am using the Polish version of Office 2007, and I can't get the citations
to work properly. First, whatever style I use which puts the authors in the citation (Chicago/Turabian, mostly, I think), there is a comma before the 'and others'/'et al.', which should be absent in Polish. Secondly, when a work has two or three authors, it puts all of them inside the citation. It's pretty annoying, really. So, after browsing this group, I'm now reading up on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...ions-1011.aspx ....but is there an easier way? Some kind of a patch, perhaps? Where should I be looking, if there does exist one? |
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Comma before "and" in citations; multiple authors
But that's correct Chicago style: for any work with one, two, or three
authors, all authors are named every time. With four or more authors, all are named in the reference list or bibliography, and references give the first author and (no comma) et al. On Jul 3, 1:46*pm, Ananke wrote: I am using the Polish version of Office 2007, and I can't get the citations to work properly. First, whatever style I use which puts the authors in the citation (Chicago/Turabian, mostly, I think), there is a comma before the 'and others'/'et al.', which should be absent in Polish. Secondly, when a work has two or three authors, it puts all of them inside the citation. It's pretty annoying, really. So, after browsing this group, I'm now reading up on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...7/12/14/biblio... ...but is there an easier way? Some kind of a patch, perhaps? Where should I be looking, if there does exist one? |
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Comma before "and" in citations; multiple authors
On 3 jul, 19:46, Ananke wrote:
I am using the Polish version of Office 2007, and I can't get the citations to work properly. First, whatever style I use which puts the authors in thecitation(Chicago/Turabian, mostly, I think), there is a comma before the 'and others'/'et al.', which should be absent in Polish. Secondly, when a work has two or three authors, it puts all of them inside thecitation. It's pretty annoying, really. So, after browsing this group, I'm now reading up on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...7/12/14/biblio... ...but is there an easier way? Some kind of a patch, perhaps? Where should I be looking, if there does exist one? Hi Ananke, I agree with grammatim when it comes to the correctness of the style. Anyway, you can always edit the styles to your needs. Firstly, the 'and others' or 'et al.' is displayed by calling the "templ_str_AndOthersUnCap" template in the different stylesheets. So if you really want to change the styles, you should look for the string xsl:call-template name="templ_str_AndOthersUnCap"/ Depending on when this line occurs, the line(s) just above it are used to display the separators before the 'and others' or 'et al.' Secondly, within the stylesheets, the cAuthors variable is used by Microsoft to store the number of authors in the list to authors. This value is compared against several other numbers to decide how many authors to display. So all changes will have to be around there. For example in the Turabian-style, the lines xsl:when test = "$cAuthors 3 and position() = $minAuthors" xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_ListSeparator"/ xsl:call-template name="templ_str_AndOthersUnCap"/ /xsl:when means that if there are more than 3 authors (in your case that should be 1) and the position of the current author being handled equals the minimum number of authors necessary to distinguish the citation between all citations, the list separator (which you don't want) will be displayed followed by 'and others'. The following line xsl:when test = "$cAuthors 3 and position() $minAuthors"/ xsl:when then means that if there are more than 3 authors, and you already have displayed the necessary amount of authors to to distinguish the citation between all citations, nothing should be displayed. So this actually handles all authors left after displaying the necessary ones. And so the structure continues ... It might take you some time to get through the entire structure and understand what does what but you should be able to tweak it to your preferences with some trial and error. That will be a lot easier than designing the entire stylesheet from scratch. It would have been nice of Microsoft to actually work with variables such as MaxAuthors which could be set at one point and which then are used to handle everything. Maybe if they read this, they might consider it for a next version. BR, Yves |
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