How to use short title in citation but long title in references list?

Tue, 06/03/2008 - 07:16 — w.hennings

Hello,
I have a reference with no author and a very long title. There is the "short title" field in the database and there are the "use title in place of author" and "use short title" checkboxes in the style editor. However if I fill in the short title and check both checkboxes, the short title is used in the citation AND in the reference list. If I UNcheck "use short title", the long title is used in the reference list and in the citation as well.
How can I make Biblioscape use the short title in the citation and the long title in the reference list?
If this is yet not possible, I'd like to have this implemented in a future version.
P.S. I just found that I already asked for this last year, see http://support.biblioscape.com/node/805 .
Paul Chen replied
"I have an idea to get round this. That is to put the short title in the authors field and end it with a comma."
This works, but is a bit of a dirty hack, and as the short title (added as author) is the beginning of the long title, it will be duplicated in the reference list.
So what speaks against implementing "use short title" separately for citation and reference list?
Wilfried

Tue, 06/03/2008 - 10:53 — Paul Chen

Wilfried, which style

Wilfried, which style requires the use of short title in footnote and full title in bibliography where there is not author? Changes in formatting engine and style editor may create compatibility problems. We like to leave them for major uprades. Thanks.

Wed, 06/04/2008 - 03:51 — w.hennings

short title in citation but long title in references

Hello and thanks for the reply.
>> Wilfried, which style requires the use of short title in footnote and full title in bibliography where there is no author?
Sorry, footnote is not what I meant.
I'm talking about APA5th style which uses in-text citation consisting of (Author, year), and if there is no author then (Title, year).
Now if the title is very long it is not practicable to cite it in full length in-text. The APA manual (2002, p.210-211) sais

When a work has no author, cite in text the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) and the year. Use double quotation marks around the title of an article or chapter, and italicize the title of a periodical, book, brochure, or report:

on free care ("Study Finds," 1982)

the book College Bound Seniors (1979)

and on page 249:

In text, use a few words of the title, or the whole title if it is short, in place of an author name in the citation: (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1993).

So if the title is longer than "few words" it should be abbreviated. The simplest thing in my opinion to do this is using the short title in in-text citation and the full title in reference list.

However I also found in the APA manual that if a reference is published by a corporation, the corporate name shall be used as author, and the word "Author" as name of the publisher, and this would apply to many of my problem cases.

But this produces a new problem: the corporate name is to be cited in full in the first occurrence in the text, and with its abbreviation in subsequent citations. Sigh.
My solution is if the corporate name is short I'll use it for all in-text citations, and if it is long or if the abbreviation is common I use the abbreviation for all in-text citations and put the full name as publisher (or institution) which is included in the reference list.

Wilfried

[] Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2002) Washington: American Psychological Association, 2001, Fifth Printing October 2002

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