[Solved] Bibliography questions

[Vardiss]

Well, I'm moving back to OOo after trying the new Word that came with Vista - as expected, it sucks.

It did have some nice bibliography tools, however. How can I do the following in OOo?

1) Is there any kind of input template for the Chicago format? If I selected that in Word, it only asked me for the things Chicago expects and it formatted it correctly.

2) I like to insert the bibliography reference from the database into the footnotes/endnotes. Is there way to get this to appear *without* the brackets? i.e. [Kenoyer 1998]

Thanks,

Dean

[jeanweber]

OOo's built-in bibliography feature is very limited. You may wish to investigate bibus http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wik ... /Main_Page, which is recommended by many OOo users. I have never used it, so I don't know if it includes templates like you want.

Regarding your item 2), this (incredibly well hidden) feature may do what you want:
1) Go to Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables.
2) On the Index/Table page, under "Type and title", choose Bibliography for the Type. Optionally change or delete the word "Bibliography" for the Title.
3) Now a section for "Formatting of the entries" is visible. In the Brackets drop-down list, choose [none].

This selection affects BOTH the entries (citations) in the text and those in the Bibliography list. If you want brackets around citations, you can type them in as needed.

[Vardiss]

Thanks! That fixes it.

I talked to a friend in academia and he recommened http://www.zotero.org for bibliographies. It can apparently automatically add the biblio information directly from web sites (like for libraries) which saves a lot of typing. And it has a OOo plug-in.