hi,<br><br>i'm using a modification of apalike.bst. i want to include the original publication year in the year field as follows: 2003[1903]. it does appear correctly in the reference list, but when citing in-text, special characters such as brackets are skipped, getting as a result: 20031903. i believe it's the purify$ function which does that, but if i remove it from the calc.label function i get a question mark as a result for the citation (reference list remains ok).<br>
<br>can anyone give me a clue? thanks.<br><br>varun<br>