As I understand it, the part of a temporary citation to the left of the # is (with the exception of prefixes, suffixes, and ^na ^ny and ^np) irrelevant, and just there for the convenience of the user. Does this mean that I can change it to something that is more meaningful to me? For example, suppose there is a paper written by Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan in 1982. Biblioscape creates the following temporary citation:
[Kaplan, Ronald M. 1982 #2909]
It would be more convenient for me for it to be:
[Kaplan & Bresnan 1982 #2909]
Would I be potentially causing problems somewhere if I were to make changes of this kind in temporary citations in papers I write, or am I correct in assuming that this part is ignored? Can I delete it completely?
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Prof. Yehuda N. Falk
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
You are right about temp
You are right about temp citations. You can change the left part. It may not be a good idea to delete them because you won't know which reference the ID refers to unless you use natural citation.
Deleting the left part
Of course it is not usually a good idea to completely delete the left part. But there is one circumstance where I do this. In linguistics, we use an author-year in-text citation format. Usually, the author's name is part of the text, and thus outside of the parentheses, and only the year is in parentheses. For example: The proposal of Falk (2006) that blah blah blah. So far as I can tell, the best way to generate these in Biblioscape is to have two temp citations, one with ^np ^ny and the second with ^na. In such a situation, there is no reason to include the left part in the second one.
Yehuda N. Falk
Associate Professor of English Linguistics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
I would just use one temp
I would just use one temp citation like this: The proposal of Falk [Falk, Y. 2006 ^na #78]. Since no style will likely to change the way Falk (the outside one) is formatted, it is easier to just treat it as regular text.
There are two reasons I do
There are two reasons I do it the way I do. First of all, styles for the author can be different (first initial or no first initial, and in the case of multiple authors there are further issues of style involved). Second of all, I find it more convenient.
Anyway, the nice thing about Biblioscape is that it's flexible enough that it can be done both ways.
Yehuda N. Falk
Associate Professor of English Linguistics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
That is the way I do it but
That is the way I do it but it causes inconveniences too because in the cases with multiple authors careful typing or cutting and pasting is required and mistakes are possible. Especially, if a references gets corrected in Biblioscape after insertion.