Upgrade StorageAn interesting challenge for CSL and disambiguation
I am, as always, working with the McGill Guide. Until I am done my master's thesis, I'll be sticking with the vanilla and not fbennett's amazing extension.
One of the things that the McGill guide expects is that, if you have multiple sources by the same author, you will create a short form for each source by that author appearing after the first cite of that source in square brackets and used in combination with their last name in subsequent cites; but if an author only has one source, you are expected to subsequently refer to that source by the author's name alone. So, for example, the citations in hypothetical footnotes 45-50 should look something like
45 First Author, First Book Title (Dakota, WY: Hunsburger, 2001), ["First Book"]
46 Second Writer, Only Book by This Guy (Wyoming, DA: Ribblerop, 2000)
47 First Author, "An Article in a Journal This Time" (1955) 15:2 Journal of Awesome 75, ["Journal This Time"]
48 Writer, supra note 46
49 Author, "First Book", supra note 45
50 Author, "Journal This Time", supra note 47
For the life of me, I can't figure out a way to implement this, because "disambiguation" only kicks in once two sources are otherwise the same. Any solution would also require users to hard-code short titles, which is maybe contrary to the schema anyway, but any advice as to how to limit the ["bracketed content"] at the end of citations (and using short-forms rather than just author names in every case) would be awesome.
One of the things that the McGill guide expects is that, if you have multiple sources by the same author, you will create a short form for each source by that author appearing after the first cite of that source in square brackets and used in combination with their last name in subsequent cites; but if an author only has one source, you are expected to subsequently refer to that source by the author's name alone. So, for example, the citations in hypothetical footnotes 45-50 should look something like
45 First Author, First Book Title (Dakota, WY: Hunsburger, 2001), ["First Book"]
46 Second Writer, Only Book by This Guy (Wyoming, DA: Ribblerop, 2000)
47 First Author, "An Article in a Journal This Time" (1955) 15:2 Journal of Awesome 75, ["Journal This Time"]
48 Writer, supra note 46
49 Author, "First Book", supra note 45
50 Author, "Journal This Time", supra note 47
For the life of me, I can't figure out a way to implement this, because "disambiguation" only kicks in once two sources are otherwise the same. Any solution would also require users to hard-code short titles, which is maybe contrary to the schema anyway, but any advice as to how to limit the ["bracketed content"] at the end of citations (and using short-forms rather than just author names in every case) would be awesome.
By "some tinkering" do you mean that you think it can already be implemented in CSL but needs some tinkering with the style, or would need CSL itself tinkering to make this work?
By tinkering I meant some hack-ish workaround like using some unused field to indicate that the author has multiple citations - it's neither elegant nor convenient, but that's all we got at the moment.