[OS X TeX] [External] \inbook in BiBTex

[Nitecki, Zbigniew H.]

Thank you.  You were absolutely right.  I had misunderstood the distinction between \inbook and \incollection.  That one change fixed everything.
ZN

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 21:26, Adam R. Maxwell via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Oct 2, 2023, at 17:36 , Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
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>> I am getting unexpected behavior when using the \inbook field in BbBTex.
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>> My .bib file has the following entries (one after the other, though that should be irrelevant):
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>> which doesn’t make sense: it should at least give the title of the book in which this “in book” appears, if not also the editor of the collection in which it appears.  I get an error message when trying to print which says you can’t have both an author and an editor in this entry.
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> A couple of points: you're missing "Chapter" which is a required field for the @inbook type (see Patashnik's btxdoc.pdf). That would give you the chapter title, at least.
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> Based on what I think you're looking for, though, I recommend using the @incollection type instead of @inbook. BTW, BibDesk is a help here, as it showed me which fields were required for @inbook and let me play with types and TeX preview quickly, since it's been years since I thought about BibTeX cross references.
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> If you look at btxdoc, the intent of @inbook is to refer to something like "chapter 2" of "A Tale of Two Cities," rather than a book where each chapter is associated with a particular author. This isn't particularly intuitive.
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> hth,
> Adam
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