On Dec 13, 2007 10:41 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
While we're at it, I've been asked many times if there's a way to do an "ibid" style citation to an existing reference but citing different page numbers or volumes, either retyping the whole ref or having to add references like "Green, p. 23." It would be great to have something where you could add a page # parameter to the ref tag in order to cite exact references throughout the text -- e.g. <ref name="Green" page="23"> -- and in references, the full Green reference would show up with "p. 23" attached to the end. Does this already exist and I just don't know about it?
As much as I like the "ibid" style, I don't think it would work in an electronic environment where at any time an entirely new and perhaps unrelated reference could be added between the original reference and the "ibid". "Op. cit." and loc. cit." might have a better chance.
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Yep :) that's why I meant something *like* ibid. The point is to be able to refer to multiple pages in a single work, for maximum precision. I don't think ibid or op cit. is good for our environment -- you need to either have the full reference or a partial reference, e.g. "See Green p. 26". In normal scholarly work the reference is shortened when it's referred to many times, but I wonder if that makes sense for us?
-- phoebe