Dear All, experimenting with the 'basic' citation backend I noticed that the default author-year citation style (and its derived variants, like text and year) does not perform citation disambiguation for items that have the same author and year. E.g. the Org document --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+cite_export: basic author-year author-year First: [cite:@disamb1examp]
Second: [cite:@disamb2examp] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- is exported as --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- First: (Doe, John, 1973) Second: (Doe, John, 1973) Doe, John (1973). /Minor Work/, Journal of Philosophy. Doe, John (1973). /Magnum Opus/, Journal of Philosophy. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- which makes it impossible to identify the cited item. Perhaps the most widespread solution to this problem is to add so called year-suffixes to the year to disambiguate: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- First: (Doe, John, 1973a) Second: (Doe, John, 1973b) Doe, John (1973a). /Minor Work/, Journal of Philosophy. Doe, John (1973b). /Magnum Opus/, Journal of Philosophy. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I think some kind of disambiguation strategy should be implemented for the basic citation backend to be really usable with the author-year style. WDYT? best regards, András
