Re: [Refdb-users] cited page numbers?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 05:16 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

>> This style tends to be more common in the numeric citation style.
>> Historians, for example, regularly have a few lines of text associated
>> with one or more citations.
>
> How do you work with this kind of references anyway? Is the page
> number a part of the reference, i.e. is it in the database, or do you
> add the page information specific to each citation in your document?

Well, in Endnote, it is not in the database, but is appended to the 
temporary citation, which might look like {Jones, 1998@23}.  I am 
forgetting the syntax now for adding other text to the temp citation, 
but it involves using another delimiter.

As we've discussed on the bibx list, I don't think this method is 
ideal.  I'd prefer that quotes have their page numbers associated with 
them, and be stored in the database.

You know, I'm just looking at a history book I have on my shelf 
(history -- and perhaps law -- being the most demanding), and I'm not 
really sure how you'd deal with this kind of thing in an elegant way, 
though I'd urge you to think about it carefully (it's got to be 
possible!).  Here is an example, which is an endnote (all of the 
references in this book being so):

61. The moral and fiscal capacity for philanthropy was an important 
mechanism of class differentiation--separating the respectable from the 
residuum as well as the wealthy from the poor; see Peter Mandler, 
"Christian Political Economy and the Making of the New Poor Law," 
Historical Journal 33, no. 1 (1990): 87.

if you can figure *this* out, I'll be mighty impressed ;-)

Bruce