Re: Ibidem: multiple versions of author's name

["Joel Lidov" <Lidov>]

I've puzzled over a similar problem in the case of people whose last 
name changed, so that they aren't even near each other in the 
alphabet.  My best advice now is to have the database reflect what is 
actually on the title page of book.  If this is intended for 
publication, you may find editors who have strong (and contrary) 
opinions about how it should be handled, so leave maximum information 
in the database, and fix it manually when the time comes.  
Alternatively (especially if footnotes are involved, so that it would 
be hard to fix it manually), put duplicate entries in the database -- 
one for each name -- and, when required, go through and change the 
references manually.  This will make for work later, either way, but 
I fear it is past praying for that you can have a solution which will 
work for all occasions.  Bibliographic standards are simply not that 
standardized when it comes to problem publications.

Joel
Elka Klein wrote on 14 Jan 2003

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a solution to the problem of dealing with authors
> with multiple versions of their names.
> 
> The most common one in my work is Yitzhak Baer, whose sourcebook was
> published in Germany under the name Fritz Baer, but whose history of
> the JEws in Spain was published under the name Yitzhak, the name he
> used for all publications after he left Germany.
> 
> So, I have the former entered as Baer, Fritz [Yitzhak] and the latter
> as Baer, Yitzhak.
> 
> This generates the first reference to each work very properly. But the
> hundreds of subsequent references, which I would like to appear simply
> with
> 
> Baer, short title, p #
> 
> appear instead with the first names too (as if they were two different
> people.
> 
> Obviously, I can go through and manually change all of the citations
> and then freeze them, but given that I cite both works hundreds of
> times, that's not a good move.
> 
> I can change the original in Ibidem, and manually change the first
> citation, and freeze it, but I'm likely to get confused if I do that.
> 
> Has anyone come up with a better solution than either of these to this
> problem?
> 
> Elka
> 
> 
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