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>I'm creating a thesis bibliography, and have run into an interesting
>problem: I have multiple cases where I am entering more than one article
>from the same edited collection, such as a festschrift. I'm wondering if
>there is some way of including both the volume (as an edited book) and the
>articles (as articles or book sections) in such a way that I can
>automatically refer to the [already-made] book entry in the article
>entries?

At present, no way to use the book as a reference. But, you can use the
fabulous duplicate command. Make one reference as it should be, then
duplicate that refernence.

>Just to expand and complicate things, I also have at least two cases where
>the collection is made up of previously-published essays by a single
>author. My advisor, who is (correctly) a stickler for exhaustive
>bibliographic procedure, feels that I should include the original
>publication info as well as that for the current appearance. What is the
>best way of doing this?

You will have to customize you reference types. Once you do these changes,
you can only use that machine, because  the reference types are stored in
the preferences file.

Take your time when creating types. I created a whole new set of reference
types to handle both the cases you describe. This makes my database
incompatible with others, but I can handle most cases without editing.
Dave Valentine
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