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From: tjb@dciem.UUCP (Tim Bowden)
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Subject: Use of `bib' with running citations
Message-ID: <2444@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 13:07:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: dciem.2444
Posted: Fri Sep 18 13:07:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 13:07:47 EDT
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Some time ago we had a problem in correctly formatting running citations
using 'bib'. Specifically we required the form

"...results have been confirmed by Smith and Jones (1982)"

in text, but the forms

"...results have been confirmed by others (Smith and Jones, 1982)"
or
"...results have been confirmed by others (Smith and Jones 1982)"

when the citation is not part of the text.

We received many helpful suggestions, and the solution we choose to adopt
is as follows:

[1] insert the string "%%" between the author and date groups in the 
citation by including "C3{\*(%%}D-4" in the bib.* file;

[2] create new macros "{" and "}" in your bmac.* file which will be used 
to define the "%%" string for the running citation as follows

.\" citation formatting strings
.ds %% " \&
.ds }] \&
..................
..
.\" formatting macros for running citations
.de {
.ds %% \& (
.ds }] )
..
.de }
.ds %% " \&
.ds }] \&
..

[3] for running citations use these macros in your text file 
as follows

"...results have been confirmed by
.{
{.Smith memory.}
.}
in their recent series of experiments."

[4] this should produce

"...results have been confirmed by Smith and Jones (1982) in their
recent experiments."

[5] entries other than running citations are treated conventionally.

We have one further problem with bib that so far has defied our efforts
to find a solution. Bib fails to treat special characters under the
"AM" macro correctly in both text and in the reference list. You can have
one or the other, but not both! If you use the form "\*:" in your data
base the text entry is OK but the reference list fails. If you try
"\\*:" in the data base the opposite problem occurs. Any ideas?
-- 
	                      Dr. Timothy Bowden, DCIEM
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