Re: Bibliography: 2 works by same author

Hi Julian,

I tested your suggestion with the current LMTX APA specification, and it turns out that the grouping logic is already there.

With:

\cite[authoryear][beiser1987,beiser1990]
ConTeXt produces:

(Beiser, 1987, 1990)
whereas two different authors give:

(Beiser, 1987; Jacobi, 1785)
There is also the authoryears variant, which produces the narrative form:

Beiser (1987, 1990)
So your suggestion is still very useful: this would make a good additional example for the Garden page, since the existing simple example does not show that APA already handles repeated authors this way.

I attach the small MWE I used for the test.

Best, JP

JP

> Le 20 août 2026 à 07:39, jbf <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> It just occurs to me, looking at one of the simple examples inhttps://wiki.contextgarden.net/Creating_a_bibliography_and_citing_sources <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Creating_a_bibliography_and_citing_sources>, that it might be a good idea to include an example of two works by the same author, as well as 2 works involving different authors.
> 
> The example provided is
> 
> \cite
>   [authoryear]
>   [beiser1987,jacobi1785]
> and that will produce, in-text, (Beiser, 1987; Jacobi, 1785).
> 
> But let's say Beiser wrote a second work in 1990.
> 
> \cite
>   [authoryear]
>   [beiser1987,beiser1990]
> will produce (Beiser, 1987; Beiser, 1990).  It might look better if we could get (Beiser, 1987, 1990). At the moment I can't quite see how to get that.
> 
> Julian
>

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