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From: "András Simonyi" <andras.simonyi@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: [org-cite, oc-basic] Citation disambiguation
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 23:11:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOWRwxDUghoTff=96c1qCZoS0s44Y1iqrqT1FwZPOfXCc4ccrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Dear All,

experimenting with the 'basic' citation backend I noticed that the
default author-year citation style (and its derived variants, like
text and year) does not perform citation disambiguation for items that
have the same author and year. E.g. the Org document
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+cite_export: basic author-year author-year
First: [cite:@disamb1examp]

Second: [cite:@disamb2examp]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
is exported as
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
First: (Doe, John, 1973)

Second: (Doe, John, 1973)

Doe, John (1973). /Minor Work/, Journal of Philosophy.

Doe, John (1973). /Magnum Opus/, Journal of Philosophy.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
which makes it impossible to identify the cited item. Perhaps the most
widespread solution to this problem is to add so called year-suffixes
to the year to disambiguate:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
First: (Doe, John, 1973a)

Second: (Doe, John, 1973b)

Doe, John (1973a). /Minor Work/, Journal of Philosophy.

Doe, John (1973b). /Magnum Opus/, Journal of Philosophy.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I think some kind of disambiguation strategy should be implemented for
the basic citation backend to be really usable with the author-year
style. WDYT?

best regards,
András


             reply	other threads:[~2021-06-03 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-03 21:11 András Simonyi [this message]
2021-06-03 21:18 ` [org-cite, oc-basic] Citation disambiguation Bruce D'Arcus
2021-06-04 21:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-06-06 11:35   ` András Simonyi
2021-06-06 12:19     ` Bruce D'Arcus
2021-06-06 12:47       ` András Simonyi

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