Timeline for Formatting a citation to a MathOverflow answer
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| Apr 27, 2014 at 15:28 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 12:06 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Joel: Is your bib system anything like this bib system? | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 10:49 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 10:39 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod |
[...] In the end, it's impossible for MO to output a @misc entry that fits all styles. Users will have to keep adjusting the MO entries to fit the bibtex style file they want to use...
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 10:39 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod |
Regarding creating bibtex style files (.bst files) with a MO entry type or even just custom MO fields, that is possible but the custom entries would be simply be ignored when not using the MO house style. So we're stuck with @misc entries, standard fields, and some relatively common fields. Unfortunately, because of they are used for miscellaneous things, most bibliographic styles don't process these entries very well and they often disagree on the usage of common fields. [...]
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 9:21 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod |
@JoelDavidHamkins: I find using biblatex painless. For all of my recent papers adding \usepackage[style=numeric]{biblatex} in the preamble, removing any \bibliographystyle{...}, and adding \printbibliography before the end of the document just works. You can keep using bibtex as a backend but biber is better. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5091/… The only drawback to biblatex is that some publishers have yet to adapt their house styles to work with biblatex, but that's really their problem in the end...
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 2:26 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Well, frankly, I am hesitant about this solution. Right now, I have a highly functional bibtex workflow, which really works for me in all respects, except that the MO bibtex items are not quite optimal (although I can adjust them adequately by hand). Do I really have to move to a totally separate bib system in order to fix that? I'm sure biblatex is great, but will it work with my editor in the way that I want? Can I install it easily? Will it work with my current files without issue? Isn't there a solution that doesn't require a change to a totally new bibtex package? | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 18:44 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added titleaddon and sample output
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| Apr 21, 2014 at 18:18 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @FedericoPoloni: Neither biber nor bibtex have problems parsing my name correctly, whichever order it is written. Bugs Bunny should be even easier to parse. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 17:55 | comment | added | Federico Poloni |
The author field should be {Dorais, François G.}, to ensure proper collation. Now, another question is "what if the author's username is Bugs Bunny".
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| Apr 19, 2014 at 23:48 | comment | added | user9072 | I do not have much opinion on how things are done precisely, especially as I do not oversee the technical details. My only concern is that questions and answers are distinguished in some way. | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 13:11 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod |
@quid: titleaddon = {(answer)} would also work.
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| Apr 19, 2014 at 13:10 | comment | added | user9072 | I think it is not optimal to use the title of the question as "title" for an answer to a question (I know it is like this since a long time but I just happened to notice recently and this seems a good place ot record this opinion). I would rather use something like "Answer to 'Title of the question' by OP of Q" (or possibly without the by OP of Q). This could be analogous to things sometimes used in journals when somebody writes a comment or remark or an appendix or something to some other paper. | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 12:50 | history | edited | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2014 at 12:23 | history | answered | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |