Format bibliography in a single continuous block

mdekauwe
Is it possible to format the bibliography (in google docs) so that instead of each item being on a separate line, items are continuous in a single block, like in a grant?

For example:

1. White et al., 1999, Glob Env Blah.; 2. Blue et al., 2008, Glob Ch Biol; 3. Yellow et al. 2010, Biogeoscience; etc

Thanks

  • damnation
    You can, at the end of writing and in a copy of your file, unlink the citations, and then the citations literally just become text that you can format as you'd like.
  • mdekauwe
    Thanks that was my plan, I was just hoping for a more automated solution so it could be formatted as I'm writing (helpful to know space demands).
  • damnation
    edited May 25, 2021
    You could use a note style and add the variable "citation-number" to the in-text production and then cite all the items within one cite bubble.

    Just did a quick'n'dirty test with Chicago note and it gives me the following output:
    "1, Campbell and Pedersen, “The Varieties of Capitalism and Hybrid Success”; 3, Isaacson, Steve Jobs; 2, Hawking, “Properties of Expanding Universes.”"
  • mdekauwe
    edited May 26, 2021
    Thanks that sound exactly what I'm after. I did try adding

    < text variable="citation-number" suffix="."/ >

    below

    < layout suffix="." >

    But that didn't seem to do it. Was there anything else you changed?
  • damnation
    Which style are you using?
  • mdekauwe
    I tried to follow your example, so I used the Chicago note and copied that line (above) from the Nature one. Ideally, I'd be editing the Nature one, as I want to use the number format instead of names in the main text.

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/nature.csl
  • damnation
    edited May 26, 2021
    In that case...
    Nature is not a note style, so first we switch that over from a numeric style.
    In line 2 and 13.

    - Then I add the author and year information into citation>layout section. So after line 109.
    - And you remove the superscripting and change the delimiter set on "layout".
    - and you set et al 3/1 on the citation line.

    https://gist.githubusercontent.com/POBrien333/688ce393e0a8524dce64024d0f3403e8/raw/e69c69f076d2e5f24a55bcf8d5a9b6b6aca8d23e/nature-note.csl

  • mdekauwe
    Thanks again, I just tested it.

    It almost captures it but there are a few issues.

    - If you cite two authors at once, you only get one number in the text (but both citations populate the bibliography)
    - When you cite additional authors these go on news lines, rather than continuing on the same line e.g.

    1. Blah, A. M. et al. 2016; 2. Blah Blah, M. G. et al. 2011
    3. Blew et al. 1998

    - I wanted to keep the journal title in the name.
    - For some reason, the main body text is now tiny as if it is all subscript, but I can't see anything toggled.
  • adamsmith
    Yeah, those two can't get fixed. Generally, every bibliography entry has a new line and there's no way around that.
  • damnation
    The variable for journal names is container-title. You'll need to set it with the form "short".
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