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#2 Journals as 'collections'
This macro seems to treat journal articles as part of a collection, which is seperately defined in another BibDesk entry. This doesn't seem to be standard practice - at least it is not mine - and therefore using the macro will mean changing hundreds of entries. Would it be possible to make this an optional approach, with the possibliity of defining the name of the journal in a single entry?
Both the macro and the included templates should be agnostic about whether or not each entry of the @article type defines its own journaltitle or takes it by way of containing a cross-reference to a @journal entry. I opted for the latter approach in the sample library, but it should already be fully optional.
I think the issue is that for a ‘Journal’ item, the publication title is in the field ‘Journaltitle’ but for an ‘Article’ item, the publication title is in the ‘Journal’ field. The templates assume that it is in ‘Journaltitle’. Changing it to ‘Journal’ will fix the issue, at least for me.
I presume it is possible to add some logic to the macro to use whichever of ‘Journaltitle’ and ‘Journal’ are non-blank? There seems to be some branching happening for deciding whether to use 1st/2nd/3rd and so on, but I am not entirely clear on the syntax.
Putting the name of the journal into journaltitle is actually the biblatex standard. At any rate, this should also easily be changed to your own data structure by changing all references in the BibDesk templates from journaltitle to journal.
Sorry, I didn't realise that it was the modern standard. I should be able to change the BibDesk file. Thanks.