Multiple bibliographic entries

Hermien Wolff
Good day,

I'm trying to create a citation style for the North-west University in South Africa. I could do most of the style adjustments, but at this stage struggle with a specific problem:

There are specific situations where we need to make 2 entries in the bibliography for one citation. One example is whith laws. In the text you refer to the law by name, but in the bibliography you need an inscription that will refer you to "South Africa". Both entries should be in alphabetical order along with all other entries. See the example from our referencing guide:

Text:
The Labour Relations Act (66 of 1995) regulates the organisational rights of trade unions.

Reference list:
Labour Relations Act see South Africa.

OR

Acts see South Africa.
South Africa. 1995. Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995.

I managed to be able to create both entries, but they end up still as one entry, next to one another:

Suid-Afrika. 2003. Wet op Gesondheid 61 van 2003. Wet op Gesondheid kyk Suid-Afrika.

Source code:

<macro name="bill">
<group delimiter=" " prefix=" " suffix=".">
<text variable="title"/>
<text value="kyk" font-weight="bold" font-style="italic"/>
<text variable="container-title"/>
</group>
</macro>

<bibliography hanging-indent="false" entry-spacing="2" line-spacing="1">
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key macro="issued" sort="ascending"/>
</sort>
<layout suffix=".">
<group delimiter=". ">
<text macro="author"/>
<text macro="issued"/>
<text macro="title"/>
<text macro="editon"/>
<text macro="container"/>
<text macro="publisher"/>
<text macro="locators"/>
</group>
<text macro="access" prefix=". "/>
<if type="bill">
<text macro="bill"/>
</if>
</layout>
</bibliography>

Sorry for posting the code here, I am not sure how to do it otherwise.

If someone can direct me in solving the problem, I would really appreciate it.
  • adamsmith
    Cross References in the bibliography like that can't be done.
    For legal citations, you can in general try to see if Frank Bennett's project offers more options:
    http://citationstylist.org/
    but I don't think he will be able to do that either.

    One thing I can think of is that you could insert this as a multiple citation in the text, but that would necessarily involve some degree of a hack.
  • Hermien Wolff
    Thanks for your quick reply. I've already checked F Bennett's project - no help there either :-(

    Thanks anyway. I will see how I can bypass the problem.

    Have a nice day.
  • fbennett
    I did code one bit of cross-reference behaviour into the processor, while working on the OSCOLA style. It was for a very specific type of reference -- maritime cases involving a ship, and identified alternatively by the ship's name or by the names of the parties.

    In the short term, if anything, I'm likely to remove the special maritime functionality: if there is to be cross-referencing support in bibliographies, it should be more general. Feel free to post to the xbiblio-devel list about your requirements. That's where the change would need to be considered, in order for it to percolate into the citeproc-js processor and ultimately into Zotero.
  • Hermien Wolff
    Thanks, I've posted in xbiblio.

    I also have another question:

    We have 2 types of citations in the text:

    1) when it is part of the text, eg: "According to Kruger et al. (1995:12) ..."

    2) when it is at the end of the text: "The sky is blue (Kruger et al., 1995:12)."

    At this stage the code support option 2 and I manually change the place of the brackets in my text, but it is tiresome.

    If there is a way that I can make the choice when the box to select the reference comes up, it will be great.

    I will also understand if it is not possible...

    Thanks very much
    H
  • adamsmith
    use suppress author in the World Processor plugin
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog
  • Hermien Wolff
    Mr Smith: Thanks. I use LibreOffice on Linux, but your suggestion still worked. I didn't realise it is so easy :-)
  • adamsmith
    LO is still a word processor ;-) (if you look closely, you can see that all the screenshots on the page are from LO under Ubuntu).

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