[OS X TeX] Book manuscript, \cite question

Toke L. Knudsen toke_knudsen at mac.com
Fri Mar 7 17:47:36 CET 2014


Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply.  My response is below.



On Mar 2, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

>
> On Mar 2, 2014, at 6:09 AM, Toke Knudsen <toke_knudsen at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ross,
>>
>> Many thanks for your reply.  My response is below.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 10:54 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Toke,
>>>
>>> On 02/03/2014, at 12:56, Toke Knudsen <toke_knudsen at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I’m finalizing a book manuscript, but have run into some issues  
>>>> with citations.
>>>>
>>>> First of all, I’m using chicago.sty (\usepackage{chicago}) to get  
>>>> the citations like I want them.  In my .bib file, I have the  
>>>> following entry (and a few more like that):
>>>>
>>>> @BOOK{pingree:cess,
>>>> AUTHOR = "Pingree, David",
>>>> TITLE = "Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit",
>>>> YEAR = "1970--94",
>>>
>>> Very interesting problem.
>>>
>>> Try
>>>     YEAR = "{1970--94}",
>>> or
>>>     YEAR = "19{70--94}{}",
>>>
>>> I've not tried this.
>>> It is just an idea to overcome the 4 digit restriction.
>>
>> Unfortunately, neither works.  It produces the following:
>>
>> Pingree   94, A.2.107–110, A.3.28, A.4.75–76, A.5.74–75
>>
>> In other words, the year is still ’94,’ but now there’s extra space  
>> between ‘Pingree’ and ’94.'
>>
>>
>>
>>> PUBLISHER = "American Philosophical Society",
>>>> ADDRESS = "Philadelphia",
>>>> NOTE = "Series A, volumes 1--5."
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> As you can see, the work was published in the period 1970 to  
>>>> 1994, over multiple years; this is causing problems when I use  
>>>> the \cite command.
>>>>
>>>> For example, at one place in the text, I cite the work as follows:
>>>>
>>>> \cite[A.2.107--110, A.3.28, A.4.75--76, A.5.74--75]{pingree:cess}
>>>>
>>>> I’d like for this to appear as follows in the text: "Pingree 1970– 
>>>> 94, A.2.107–110, A.3.28, A.4.75–76, A.5.74–75”; but instead I get  
>>>> the the following:
>>>>
>>>> Pingree 94, A.2.107–110, A.3.28, A.4.75–76, A.5.74–75
>>>>
>>>> Apparently only four digits from the YEAR entry is cited, so with  
>>>> the two dashes, I only get the last two digits—94.  I don’t how  
>>>> to change this, so I’m asking if any of you would be able to help  
>>>> me.  How can I get the citation to print “1970–94” for the year?
>>>>
>>>> With all best wishes,
>>>> Toke
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>>    Ross
>>
>> All best wishes,
>> Toke
>>
>
> With the entry
>
> YEAR = {1970--94},
>
> you'll get a bbl that's half right. The bibliographic entry is now  
> correct but the citation is not. So, after you run latexmk or  
> pdflatexmk to generate a faulty bbl:
>
> 1. Correct the bbl manually (and save a copy).
> 2. Run latex twice or pdflatex twice (as appropriate) to generate  
> your final output. (Do not use the ...mk script for this.)
>
> Michael

This appears to be the easiest way to do it.  My concern was that the  
publisher would run BibTeX and ruin my changes.  However, that could  
be avoided by sending them only the bbl file, not the bib file.

All best,
Toke


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