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I'm using biblatex/biber to cite a collected work in a book, which is essentially a collection of previously published works. I wish to cite the original publication date of the work while indicating that it can be found in this collection. It looks like this in APA style:

Bibliography entry:

Freud, S. (1953). The method of interpreting dreams: An analysis of a specimen dream. In J. Strachey (Ed. & Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 4). Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books (Original work published 1900)

and in-text citation: (Freud, 1900/1953)

My problem is that the @incollection entry doesn't have a field for its original publication year. The closest that I can get is doing something like this:

@incollection{naur1985programmingtheorybuilding,
  author =       {Naur, Peter},
  title =        {Programming as Theory Building},
  year =         {1985/1992}, % putting year={1985} doesn't work
  pages =        {37--48},
  crossref =     {naur1992computinghumanact},
}

@collection{naur1992computinghumanact,
  title =        {Computing, a human activity},
  author =       {Naur, Peter},
  year =         {1992},
  booktitle =    {Computing, a human activity},
  publisher =    {ACM Press},
  address=       {New York},
}

But biber gives me a warning:

WARN - legacy year field '1985/1992' in entry 'naur1985programmingtheorybuilding' is not an integer - this will probably not sort properly.

Is there a better way to do this?

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  • Have you considered using the note field?
    – Mico
    Commented Sep 22, 2022 at 13:45
  • @Mico Ya, but it doesn't work the same
    – zacque
    Commented Sep 23, 2022 at 1:02

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Try this:

@incollection{naur1985programmingtheorybuilding,
  author =       {Naur, Peter},
  title =        {Programming as Theory Building},
  origyear =     {1985},
  pages =        {37--48},
  crossref =     {naur1992computinghumanact},
}

@collection{naur1992computinghumanact,
  title =        {Computing, a human activity},
  author =       {Naur, Peter},
  year =         {1992},
  booktitle =    {Computing, a human activity},
  publisher =    {ACM Press},
  address=       {New York},
}

Which gives:

enter image description here

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  • Thanks, but it doesn't work---still showing 1992 in both citation and bibliography.
    – zacque
    Commented Sep 26, 2022 at 2:19
  • I thought this was what was wanted according to the question? I have added a screenshot of the output.
    – PLK
    Commented Sep 28, 2022 at 18:18
  • @zacque It should be noted that the image shown in this answer was produced with style=apa, (since you mention APA style in your question that might not have been a bad idea). The standard styles and many contributed styles, however, will ignore origyear by default.
    – moewe
    Commented Sep 28, 2022 at 18:38

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