Thanks a lot guys. I'll stick to the "Note" field then. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio Rojas wrote: > >> Thank you all for your answers, they have been of great help. Still, >> the main technical question, the how do I do it in BibTeX, remains >> unanswered. Is there a "Note" or "Previously Published" field in >> BibTeX? How do I solve this problem using the available fields? >> > There are three different problems : > > - edition number. For example, B. Obama, Hope, hope, etc..., New York : > Faber, 2008, 4th edition > You use there the edition field in a bib entry with an integer, most > European styles put the number in superscript after or before the year > (German way). The edition field works with most bibtex styles > > - reprint (meaning a photomecanical reproduction of an old book) > > Avicenna, Liber canonis, Venice, 1507 (reprint Hildesheim : Olms Verlag, > 1964) > > Then you have to use Biblatex that adds to the bib file fields an origyear, > origlocation, origtitle fields for reprint information or translation. The > new chicago biblatex style uses them. > > - translation > J. L. Borges, Histoire universelle de l'infamie, Paris : Christian > Bourgeois, 1985 (orig. Historia universal de la infamia, Buenos Aires, > 1935) > > Possible with the Biblatex origyear, origlocation, origtitle with some macro > magic. > > > If the bibliographic style that you want to use does not mandate to put the > reprint / translation information in the footnotes citation but you just > want to add this information at the end of a bibliographic entry in the > ending bibliography then use the note field. > > > >
