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BIBTEX (THEAPA) Appending letter to year problems

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From: Richard Dallaway
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:57
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I'm using version 2.5 (April 1992) of theapa.sty and .bst, and I
have found the following problem.  I have two bibliography entries:
    McCloskey, Aliminosa and Sokol (1991)  and
    McCloskey, Harley, and Sokol (1991)

theapa adds "a" and "b" to the year, which is understandable if you say
"McCloskey et al (1991a)" to refer to the first (but I don't use the
shorter version), but looks wrong in the bibliography:
    McCloskey, Aliminosa and Sokol (1991a) ...
    McCloskey, Harley, and Sokol (1991b) ...

I'm not sure what to do about this.  One possibility is to engineer it so
that you cannot have a short \cite version in this case (but I haven't
worked out how to code that).

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Also, I'll repeat a previous request for help

Does anybody have even a VAGUE idea about how to do this...?
Make theapa recognize that different authors with the same last name need
to have their initials as part of the citation.  E.g., two papers, one
by J.R. Anderson (1991) and one by D. Z. Anderson (1991) should appear with
their initials when you use \cite and NOT as Anderson (1991a) and Anderson
(1991b), which is what happens at the moment. (I know I can do this by
editing the .bbl file, but I'd like bibtex to do it for me).

Thanks
Richard
richardd@cogs.susx.ac.uk
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From: richardd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Dallaway)
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Subject: BIBTEX (THEAPA) Appending letter to year problems
Keywords: theapa.sty, bibtex
Message-ID: <1992Aug21.095731.22600@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:57:31 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex at Brighton
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