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Here is a question from John Bealle:

>(1) What is the best way to deal with authorless references, that
>is, to get the titles of the authorless references to sort with
>the authors of the other references?  What I have done is create
>two new reference types, "Authorless Book" and "Authorless
>Article," for which the title is actually in the author field.  I
>use a comma at the end of the title to keep it from inverting
>what it thinks is first and last name, but so far I've not
>encountered any titles that have internal commas.  How do I deal
>with titles with commas?  Are there other problems I'm going to
>face?  (There was a discussion about this some time ago, but I
>can't recall the results.)

Dear John,

The solution to your problem is to keep the title in the "Title" field in
your Authorless Book and Article reference types, but in the "Author" field,
change the field name to something like "Title for sorting" and put the
first few words of the title in this field. This field will be used for
sorting purposes only. Now, you need to edit your style. I assume you have
created style specifications for your two authorless reference types; in the
style, only Title, Year, etc. should be specified, because you do not want
the "Author" field to appear in the reference. In the style sorting, the
sort order should be Author+Year+Title.

Let me know if this is not clear, or if this is not the solution you are
looking for. I realize there is room for improvement in the way EndNote
handles anonymous works.

Best Regards,
Kimberly Mattingly

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