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chiehrosswang / TRB_LaTeX_tex

A LaTeX template for Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting papers
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trbcite with page numbers #11

Closed retorquere closed 6 years ago

retorquere commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to include page numbers when citing? \trbcite[130]{citekey} doesn't seem to work.

chiehrosswang commented 6 years ago

It is not a defined option as of now. However, there is an easy work-around: providing page(s) in your .bib file. For example, article Koppelman2005 in the .bib file used in this template has pages = {63--69} in its BibTeX entry. In the Reference section (bibliography), this reference looks like below. Note the pages are shown in the end.

[5] Koppelman, F. S. and L. A. Garrow, Efficiently Estimating Nested Logit Models with Choice- 11 Based Samples: Example Applications. Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Trans12 portation Research Board, Vol. 1921, No. 1, 2005, pp. 63–69.

retorquere commented 6 years ago

But that would make it impossible to cite different page ranges in different places of my own article.

gregmacfarlane commented 6 years ago

Typically in-text page references are only used when referring to a direct quote. From the APA style guide:

APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14).

TRB doesn't provide any information for citations with page references, but it doesn't seem that their guide for authors addresses it at all:

Denote a reference at the appropriate place in the text with an italicized Arabic numeral in parentheses, e.g., (2). Do not denote text references with superscripts.

I myself have never seen a (3, p. 114) quote citation in TRR. I wish that TRB would simply adopt an accepted citation style (e.g. APA), but until they explicitly address this in some way I don't know that we need to revise the citation formatters.

chiehrosswang commented 6 years ago

I have never seen pages in in-line citations in TRR either. I agree with you @gregmacfarlane that we don't need to revise the citation formatter unless more clear guidelines or style has been adopted.