On Oct 17, 2004, at 4:35 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
I've added an attribute to the Authorlist element in citestylex.dtd to
deal with this. However, I'm unsure how to implement this. Monographs
and similar works are fairly straightforward, but what happens in a
book chapter if you know the chapter author, but not the book editor?
I'd just leave out the editor, then. The reason why you substitute
titles for missing main authors is for purposes of identification and
sorting. Otherwise, I don't think they're important enough to handle
in any special way.
How do you deal with missing series editors? Are there any general
rules to follow?
Same. Series editors are particularly non-critical.
I was just discussing this issue on the OOoBib list.
How I currently handle it:
For periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.) with missing
names/authors, I use the periodical title in its place. For all other
kinds of records, I uses "Anonymous." I even create a virtual mods
element called "nonname-substitute" for exactly this.
This is not configurable, though, and probably should be. So, my
current idea is to do this at the global level:
<names initialize-with=". " delimeter=", " last-delimeter=", and "
shorten-after="3">
<missing-substitute
periodical-title="yes">Anonymous</missing-substitute>
</names>
I'm not totally sure this is right, but seems like a reasonable
approach. If we say that sometimes one would substitute a monograph
title, then this gets more complicated of course, so am curious what
you all think.
Bruce
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