Re: books in multiple volumes

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 12:45, jdbillett wrote:
> Many thanks to those who have been offering help.
>
> I would like to know how to go about citing books that are in
> multiple volumes (not
> periodicals, which have a volume or year).  There are two problems
> that I need to
> solve, one for the bibliography, and one for the citations.
>
> 1. For example, I wish to cite a commentary on the Rule of St
> Benedict.  I'd like the
> bibliography entry to look like this:
>
> A. de Vog{\"u}e, {\em La R{\`e}gle de Saint Beno{\^\i}t}, 6 vols.,
> Sources Chretiens
> 181--6 (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1971--2)
>
> So, for this, I would use the @BOOK entry type, and fill in the
> fields EDITOR, TITLE,
> SERIES, NUMBER, ADDRESS, PUBLISHER, YEAR.  I would probably also use
> a
> SHORTTITLE to abbreviate it to "{\em RB}" in the text.
>
> But I don't know how to get the "6 vols." field.
Use the `titleaddon' field for this.
>
> 2. Likewise, when I cite it in the text, I would like the citations
> to indicate the volume
> and page number (preferably with roman numerals for the volume).
>
> For instance, if I wanted to cite volume 5, page 598, I'd want to
> look something like
> this:
>
> de Vog{\"u}e, {\em RB}, V, p.~598.
>
> The main problem, as I see it, is that I want to use the
> "pages=format" option that's
> built into the Oxford style citations, but I obviously don't want
> p.~V, 598.
>
> If I were to use this as \footcite[V, 598]{devogue:1971-2}, would
> this be a problem?
Yes. This is always a problem when referring to these kind of works. You 
should do \footcite[\nopage{V, p.~598}]{devogue:1971-2}
As you see this doesn't really save you typing, so in case that you very 
frequently refer to volumes of works, you should better turn off 
pages=format. It is almost never required, so turning it off will save you a 
lot of work.
Best,

Maarten Wisse


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