How to cite "author (year-year)" e.g. a yearbook with just one entry in the bibliography?

Question

How can I cite an annually published yearbook of a certain author with just one entry in the bibliography while also citing the same author with another publication of the last year cited of the first reference, the yearbook?

Here is the example.

I want to cite:

Author_1 (1999-2011): Yearbook.

and

Author_1 (2011): Study.

I am using Jabref.

Currently I paste the years of the yearbook in brackets in the field "year" in Jabref: {1999-2011}. In the text I refer to it like this: \citeauthor{Reference} (1999-2011). In the bibliography then appears:

Author_1 (1999-2011).

I also need to include the second source, which should appear as

Author_1 (2011) in the references.

But since I have both references, it ends up to:

Author_1 (1999-2011a), Author_1 (2011b)

instead of

Author_1 (1999-2011), Author_1 (2011).

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Using essentially the same technique as described in the following question:

• Truncation of "year" field in author-year citations using "apalike" bibliography style

We can make almost the same modification, but with one further change in order to get the - in the year range.

So make a copy of apalike.bst and name it something else, e.g., myapalike.bst. Then find the function calc.label and make the following change:

Change the line

year field.or.null purify$ #-1 #4 substring$   % uses all four digits

to be:

year field.or.null #-1 #64 substring$          % allow many characters and don't purify 

Now your example will work as you desire:

% !BIB TS-program = bibtex

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@book{Author1999,
    Editor = {Author, An},
    Publisher = {The Publisher},
    Title = {This is the yearbook},
    Year = {1999-2011}}

@incollection{Author2011,
    Author = {Author, An},
    Editor = {Author, An},
    Booktitle = {This is the yearbook},
    Title = {A chapter of the yearbook},
    Publisher = {The Publisher},
    Year = {2011}}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{myapalike}
\begin{document}
\cite{Author1999,Author2011}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}