I am using BibLaTeX with the verbose-ibid
style and have customized it in accord with the specifications for my thesis. I now come to an article that was published in several installments over a period of 2 years, but always in the same journal and with the same title. I want to know how I can represent this to BibLaTeX and get an appropriate bibliography entry and citations.
Let us say that the installments are:
- vol. 43 (1937), pp. 1-23
- vol. 43 (1937), pp. 390-417
- vol. 44 (1937), pp. 244-280
- vol. 45 (1938), pp. 17-43
- vol. 45 (1938), pp. 117-130
Note that this journal published two volumes per year.
The bibliography entry may be the most complex part. It should look something like this:
J. Doe, Insights on the history of plumbing, in Plumbatica 43 (1937), pp. 1-23, pp. 390-417, 44 (1937), pp. 244-280, 45 (1938), pp. 17-43, pp. 117-130.
I am flexible about the details of this: it would be acceptable to repeat the volume and year thus:
J. Doe, Insights on the history of plumbing, in Plumbatica 43 (1937), pp. 1-23, 43 (1937), pp. 390-417, 44 (1937), pp. 244-280, 45 (1938), pp. 17-43, 45 (1938), pp. 117-130.
Because there is only such item in the bibliography, I would be perfectly happy with a manual solution that involved sticking everything after the first page range (1-23) into a special field that would be glommed on to the end of the bibliography entry. Perhaps I could just stick \ppno~1--23, \ppno~390--417, 44 (1937), \ppno~244--280, 45 (1938), \ppno~17--43, \ppno~117--130
in the Pages
field.
The other problem is the citations. When I first introduce this source, I will list it with other sources on the same subject, and so I will have something very much like the bibliography entry, since this is a verbose style. Then I will proceed to cite passages from it. Each citation must have the correct volume and year.
The thought occurred to me of using 5 entries in the bib file, one for each installment. However, I don't want 5 different entries in the bibliography, and with the verbose-ibid style, citations after the first would be shortened as if each installment were an independent source.
Edit: here is the requested MWE. The results are acceptable, although they are occasionally a bit too verbose (see below). My question was really about best practices. If the best practice in this case is to abuse the pages field, I suppose it's answered.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose-ibid]{biblatex}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{ref1,
title = {Insights on the history of plumbing},
author = {Doe, J.},
journal = {Plumbatica},
volume = {43},
pages = {\ppno~1--23, \ppno~390--417, 44 (1937), \ppno~244--280, 45 (1938), \ppno~17--43, \ppno~117--130},
year = {1937}}
@article{ref2,
title = {The rise and fall of asbestos piping},
author = {Newman, D.},
journal = {Annals of Plumbing},
volume = {35},
pages = {289--299},
year = {1965}}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\section{Title}
\lipsum[4]\footcites{ref1}{ref2}
\lipsum[1]\footcite[44 (1937), \ppno~250-256]{ref1}
\lipsum[5]\footcite[44 (1937), \pno~254]{ref1}
\lipsum[9]\footcite[297]{ref2}
\lipsum[2]\footcite[43 (1937) \ppno~15-18]{ref1}
\lipsum[6]\footcite[43 (1937) \ppno~15-18]{ref1}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
In these citations, which appear on the first page, footnote 3 would ideally not repeat the volume and year, but would just have "Ibid., p. 254." However, I recognize that the ideal may not be worth the effort it would take to achieve.
This is from page 2. In this case, I don't understand why footnote 5 does not just read "Ibid.", because the location passed to footcite is identical.
ibidpage=true
option\footcite[244]{ref1}
after a\footcite[244]{ref1}
does indeed only yield an "ibid." without any page number. This behaviour is only enabled if the optional postnote is detected to be a page number; since43 (1937) \ppno~15-18
decidedly is not a page number, this feature is not available here. (See also musicman's comment in his answer below.)