BibTeX: how to reference a special issue of a journal?

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

How can one reference a special issue of a journal? (Note: not an
article, the entire special issue.)

There is the Proceedings entry, but one can't use both volume and
number fields:

Warning--can't use both volume and number fields in DR06

[anonk]

Post by Vincent Lefevre
Hi,
How can one reference a special issue of a journal? (Note: not an
article, the entire special issue.)
There is the Proceedings entry, but one can't use both volume and
Warning--can't use both volume and number fields in DR06

Treating it as a 'book' with further details in the 'notes' field has
sufficed for me. I think of special issues as similar to books where
each chapter is contributed by a different author. The only practical
differences are in the publication details.

[v***@gmail.com]

Post by Vincent Lefevre
There is the Proceedings entry, but one can't use both volume and
Warning--can't use both volume and number fields in DR06

I'm not sure which bibliography style you are using, but I enter
volume and number every day in apacite format. If don't get good
output from the "book" trick above, you could enter text in the
"volume" field like "supplement" or "special issue" or whatever they
call it.

[Vincent Lefevre]

Post by v***@gmail.com

Post by Vincent Lefevre
There is the Proceedings entry, but one can't use both volume and
Warning--can't use both volume and number fields in DR06

I'm not sure which bibliography style you are using, but I enter
volume and number every day in apacite format.

It's "plain".

Post by v***@gmail.com
If don't get good output from the "book" trick above, you could
enter text in the "volume" field like "supplement" or "special
issue" or whatever they call it.

In the volume field, I can put the volume. The problem is that there's
no field for the number. It's strange that there's an "article" entry
that accepts a volume and a number, but no corresponding entry for the
whole issue.

I could probably use "book" but there appears not to be a standard
way to store the number (I'm not sure whether this is important in
my case, though); AFAIK the bib file may also be processed by another
tool that doesn't use BibTeX, and it must be compatible with with
tool. So, I've sent a mail to the persons who developed the tools
to see what I should do exactly.

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

Post by Vincent Lefevre

Post by v***@gmail.com

Post by Vincent Lefevre
There is the Proceedings entry, but one can't use both volume and
Warning--can't use both volume and number fields in DR06

I'm not sure which bibliography style you are using, but I enter
volume and number every day in apacite format.

It's "plain".

Post by v***@gmail.com
If don't get good output from the "book" trick above, you could
enter text in the "volume" field like "supplement" or "special
issue" or whatever they call it.

In the volume field, I can put the volume. The problem is that there's
no field for the number. It's strange that there's an "article" entry
that accepts a volume and a number, but no corresponding entry for the
whole issue.

You could use biblatex[1], which also has a kind of 'plain' style called
'numeric'. biblatex provides an entry type '@periodical' where you can
use volume and number (and, if necessary, an issuetitle).

Regards,
Dominik.-

Fu�noten:
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[1] http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html