Re: TY=BOOK

Hi,

Z F <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> getref :TY:=book
>
> I get book references, but the references contain only the
> authors and the title of the book. No year of publication
> or publisher name is returned.
>
> If I do:
>
> getref -t ris :TY:=book
>
> then I can see CY, PB and PY fields.
>

The screen output (and HTML/XHTML as well) was designed to be compact by
default. I find it hard to find a particular reference if e.g. 90% of the
returned text is abstracts and notes. Therefore a getref command without
further options shows only a subset of the available fields.

I cannot confirm though that the publication date is not shown in the default
output. If I run "getref :TY:=BOOK", I get something like this:

--8<---------------
ID*:614 (2001)
Key: BROCKBANK2001
Brockbank,Kelvin G.M., Covault,James C., Taylor,Michael J.
Cryopreservation Manual

REPRINT: NOT IN FILE
--8<---------------

You can of course configure which fields are shown. I always want to know
whether I have a reprint of that reference or not, so I have the RP and AV
fields displayed by default, as shown above. You can do this by either

- adding something like "fields PBCY" to your .refdbcrc config file
- start refdbc with the "-F PBCY" option
- run the getref command with the "-s PBCY" option

All of these options cause the publisher and the city of publication to be
displayed.

regards,
Markus




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