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This is my (deprecated) suite of R Markdown templates for academic manuscripts, beamer presentations, and syllabi. DOWNLOAD {stevetemplates} INSTEAD.
http://svmiller.com/stevetemplates/
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Bibliography format in syllaba #4

Closed sammo3182 closed 7 years ago

sammo3182 commented 7 years ago

@svmiller, I appreciate all the rmarkdown templates you provided here! They are very helpful. However, here's a question about the bibliography styles in the syllabus template: why is there always an "In:" for the article bibliography? I didn't find that problem when using your template of academic article, while I didn't find the difference between the two templates in the bibliography part in both latex and rmd files. Do you have any idea where the "In:" comes from---because of the RefManageR package? Thank you.

svmiller commented 7 years ago

Hi Yue,

To my chagrin, yes, you get that odd-ball citation format because of RefManageR. If you want full bibliographic citations in the middle of a document (a la a syllabus), RefManageR is the best R package for it. However, RefManageR won't give you the APSA-style citations we all know and love. It gives you just a handful of styles.

There is an alternative to which I allude. rcrossref can do this but it requires (to the best of my knowledge) DOI numbers and I'm not a huge fan of fishing for those. It also will not know how to italicize things like the book or journal title. That's a huge drawback. That critique of rcrossref true as of my blog post on it last year. My hope is that changes.

sammo3182 commented 7 years ago

Steven, thank you for the reply! I will go check the rcrossref. I also left the same issue under the RefManageR repo. Hope the next version of the package may do some improvement.