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Charles Hadley:

>   Is there some means of referring from within a formatted
>   bibliography to other items in the bibliogra^phy? E.g.,
>   I would like to refer to an article in a collection or
>   to a letter in The Collected Letters Of..., and have two
>   items in the formatted biblio: one to the letter,
>   including a reference to the collection, and one
>   (complete) one to the collection. The only way I have
>   found of doing this is to include the citation to th
>   collection in the Book Title field of the Edited Book
>   reference, then format the paper twice. Is there not
>   some more elegant way of doing this?

        I haven't tried this, but I think it'll work.  Make a custom reference
type for letters from collections, including fields for the source (the
collection).  Then, for each style you use, you will need to specify how this
new reference type is to be formatted.  When you are entering a citation in the
text, if you are not citing the collection itself, you will have to  enter a
"blind" citation to it: delete the author and date, leaving only the reference
number. The collection will appear in the bibliography. There will be no in-text
citation for the collection when you use author-date styles, but there will be a
normal entry for numbered styles, which may or may not be a problem, depending
on your needs.  If it is a problem, make the blind citation at the very end of
the text, and then delete after formatting.  You will need to make only one such
blind entry per document.  If you need to enter into your library many works
from one collection, don't forget that you can copy entries and then edit them,
saving redundant typing.
        Of course, this is not as elegant as having EN format citations within
citations, which I don't think it can do (Avi?), but it should work.
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