short name citations

mm77 · Blue Pill Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi, can anybody explain how the short name system works in the bibliography tool? I would like to enter in-text citations into a document using apa style. All I seem to be able to do is enter a short name in to the document. Thanks, mike.

PadreSol · Blue Pill Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Posts: 3

Same question for me, I thought I was missing something obvious. But as far as the instructions for inserting a bibliography from the bibilograhpy db I followed those correctly. So is it broken? If it's broken is there a bug logged?
I just spent a half-hour entering entries in the db now I can't use them. Is there a way to export them to a text file from the db?

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

I have not seen many bibliography questions on this site in the past and I am not terribly familiar with this feature. So, can you list some sample steps that we can use to try to reproduce what you are trying to do?

Patrick

PadreSol · Blue Pill Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Posts: 3

Thanks pluby. I hope it's something stupid that I'm doing so I can make this work, since I have a deadline (who doesn't?)

Here's my workflow:

Added entries to Biblio db.

Then in the document I go to Insert->index/tables->biblio entry->select from biblio db->insert->(at this point it has inserted the shortcode)->close

Now I have an entry like [MSCdC-011] in my document instead of the text of the bibliography.

Am I expecting something that I shouldn't be expecting?

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

Thank you for the steps. I can easily reproduce the same behavior that you are seeing. Unfortunately, I think there is some undocumented trick to this so I'll have to keep poking around to see if I can find what magical step we are missing.

Edit: This tutorial looks promising. I haven't worked through the entire tutorial, but it appears to indicate that you have to do some preliminary steps before inserting the bibliographic entries.

Patrick

PadreSol · Blue Pill Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Posts: 3

I am the proud owner of a bouncing new ..... Bibliography!!
Thanks pluby!

And for the OP, additional steps are (once you added shortcodes)

Choose Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables->Type->Bibliography

At the url that pluby found (I looked pretty good and did not find that BTW)
the screenshots have been squished down with html tags but in firefox if you right-click->view image you'll see the image clearly in its original form.

Nice, just not intuitive, and should be added to the docs. Once it's in the docs then problem is solved.

Lorinda · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:14 am Post subject:

I've added a link to the bibiliography tutorial to the NeoWriter page in our wiki.

Lorinda
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Kiwisteve · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: short name citations

OPENSTEP · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject:

Wow, I didn't know Zotero did a Neo extension! I had bookmarked that project a while back as one to look for making an extension if I had some free time. EndNote's always been closed source so there wasn't even a starting point if the company wasn't involved.

ed

ovvldc · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:10 am Post subject:

This looks good! Has anyone tried entering Zotero citations in a .doc document and then opening it in NeoOffice?

I know that EndNote citations are simply removed if you open a Word the document in NeoOffice, which annoys me to no end.

BTW, they mention Python support is broken on OOo3..

Best wishes,
Oscar

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

ovvldc · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

I have no idea. All I know was what I read in their documentation.

Best wishes,
Oscar

James3359 · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

Broken Python support in OSX is Issue 92661 on OOo. Scheduled to be fixed at version 3.0.1.

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949