On 7 aug, 18:46, Natai <Na...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I am currently working on writing a paper using the Turabian reference
> format. For the most part Word is very helpful when it comes to references
> and creating abibliography, but now I have a problem. I need to reference a
> journal article accessed online. When I add the source in the Source Manager,
> I have to choose either journal article or online document. The problem is
> that neither of these options alone have all the fields I need. If I choose
> journal article I have all the field for the article but lack the fields for
> the URL and date accessed. If I choose online document I have those fields
> but lack the fields for volume and number of the journal. Clicking on the box
> to show allbibliographyfields does add more fields to the last, but not all
> of them and certainly not the ones I need. Is there a way to create a custom
> source type with the fields I need? Is there another source type that has all
> of the fields? Any suggestions beyond editing each entry manually in the
> document? Thanks
>
> --
> Sean McLaughlin
Hi Sean,
You can but what is point? Suppose you add a custom source type. How
do you expect the current styles (APA, MLA, Turabian, ...) to format
it? Unless you extend them as well, they have no clue what to do.
Besides, adding custom types violates the xml schema defining
bibliographies. Luckely this is not an issue for Word 2007 as Word
does not verify the input. The current bibliography xml schema does
not define any relationship between the source types and the available
fields. Hence, you can make every field available for every source
type without violating the schema. However, once again, the current
styles will have no idea how to handle the extra fields unless you
update them.
That said, if you still want to make the changes yourself, you will
have to edit a file called bibform.xml to add extra fields (or even
source types) to the bibliographic possibilities. The file can be
found at <Word Directory>\<LCID>\bibliography\bibform.xml . Some more
information and a tool to localize adaptations to the file can be
found at
http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography...eleaseId=15976
Once you updated the input form, you will have to update the style.
The Turabian style is located at <Word Directory>\Bibliography\Style
\TURABIAN.XSL. I wish you good luck with editing it, because the xslt
is rather complex and unorganized. The only suggestion I can offer at
the moment, is to format the entry yourself and put it in the comments
line of your bibliographic entry, then you only have to output that.
At least it will minimalize the changes you have to make to the style.
In time, I will probably convert the existing styles so they can
easily be extended or updated. But I don't have a timeline for that.
BR
Yves
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For more Word 2007 bibliography info, see
http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography
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