I am running into an issue that it appears was foreseen in biblatex-chicago
in section 4.2 under shorthand
.
My problem is that in my field, there are a few collection works that are commonly referred to in citations by a shorthand. However, each entry has its own author and title. So in each footnote, I need the title, author, and then the reference to the collection should be a shorthand.
It looks like in the biblatex-chicago
manual under shorthand
in section 4.2 that I should "use the shorthandintro field somehow to clarify that the shorthand applies to the parent rather than to the child."
First, I am not sure what that means. Second, my style requires that all shorthands are cited as the shorthand on the first entry, so I have the shorthandfirst
option in my package options. So I am unsure what shorthandintro
would even do. (I tried setting it to something, but nothing happens, probably because I have shorthandfirst
set).
Here is a MWE of what I am seeing:
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\usepackage[english=american]{csquotes}
\usepackage[noibid,backend=biber,notes,isbn=false,shorthandfull,shorthandfirst,inheritshorthand=true,citereset=chapter,longcrossref=bib]{biblatex-chicago}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{temp.bib}
@collection{bigbook,
editor = {John Q. Editormann},
title = {A Collection of Essays},
shorthand = {ACoE},
options = {skipbib},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
address = {Oxford},
year = {1995}}
@incollection{incol,
crossref = {bigbook},
options = {skipbiblist},
author = {Steve Authormann},
title = {This is an Essay},
pages = {1-15}}
@incollection{incol2,
crossref = {bigbook},
options = {skipbiblist},
author = {John Essaymann},
title = {An Essay on Collections},
pages = {16-30}}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{temp.bib}
\begin{document}
\printbiblist{shorthand}
\null\vfill
I need to reference this in a footnote.\footcite[12]{incol} But this is
another footnote.\footcite[18]{incol2} I need the second footnote
twice.\footcite[20]{incol2}
\clearpage
\printbibliography
\end{document}
This is what I see in the footnotes and bib:
I have no idea why a subsequent reference uses the author last name, which in the first instance it uses ACoE.
If I comment out the shorthand in the collection
entry, I see this (obviously the LoA goes away, and the bib remains unchanged):
But I need a combination of these styles. I need the style of the second example, where in the first two footnotes it lists author and title, but both footnotes should be "in ACoE" and then the page numbers.
I know that the author of biblatex-chicago
recommends against shorthands with cross references, but my style requires using the shorthand of the collection in incollection. I have many, many of these incollections so I would prefer to still be able to use crossref
to link to only one collection
entry, if possible.
A second issue, that I think is much harder to solve, is that in subsequent references (footnote 3), I need both author and the collection abbreviation. So footnote three above is wrong in both instances. It should say something like "Essaymann, ACoE, 20."
This I think is harder to solve and would require a new entry type, perhaps?