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>Here is a question from John Bealle:
>
>>(1) What is the best way to deal with authorless references, that
>
>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.

I always use Anon in the author field.  This is handy as it usually appears
at the top of the library file.  It's easy enough to edit out of the final
bibliography.

BTW, if you are importing from other data bases like Medline or Current
Contents using EndLink be sure to watch out for missing author fields as
this will really scramble your import.  When doing an import I always use a
temporary library file and check on the first and last ref before moving to
my main library.  If there were any missing fields you will find the last
reference garbled.  In this case you'll need to chase through the original
text file to find the missing field.

Yours, virtually

Jim Cummins

Associate Professor in Veterinary Anatomy
Murdoch University,
Murdoch Western Australia 6150
Tel. +61-9-360 2668
Fax +61-9-310 4144
E mail cummins@possum.murdoch.edu.au

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