Re: DOCBOOK: Bibliography: citing journal articles

[Terry Allen <tallen at sonic dot net>]

Konrad Hinsen wrote:

| After staring at the DocBook reference for half an hour, I am giving up.
| I just can't figure out how to put a journal article into a bibliography.

I don't blame you; it's taken a fair amount of experience for me to
figure out how to use it properly.  A key insight was that one wants
to use citetitle instead of title here (thanks to Eduardo!).

Here's a little biblio (which parses) showing how I'd do it.

<!DOCTYPE bibliography PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">
<bibliography>

<!-- as you marked it up -->
<biblioentry>
<artheader>
<authorgroup>
  <author><firstname>W.</firstname><surname>Clinton</surname></author>
  <author><firstname>B.</firstname><surname>Jeltsin</surname></author>
</authorgroup>
<title>Ruling the World</title>
<volumenum>42</volumenum>
<artpagenums>113-152</artpagenums>
<pubdate>1999</pubdate>
</artheader>
</biblioentry>

<!-- altered with journal title inserted -->
<biblioentry>
<artheader>
<authorgroup>
  <author><firstname>W.</firstname><surname>Clinton</surname></author>
  <author><firstname>B.</firstname><surname>Jeltsin</surname></author>
</authorgroup>
<citetitle pubwork="article">Ruling the World</citetitle>
<citetitle pubwork="journal">Journal of Applied Politics</citetitle>
<volumenum>42</volumenum>
<artpagenums>113-152</artpagenums>
<pubdate>1999</pubdate>
</artheader>
</biblioentry>

<!-- how I did it for my book -->

<bibliomixed>
<author><firstname>D. R.</firstname>
<surname>ap-Thomas,</surname></author>
<citetitle pubwork="article">The Foundations
of `Roderic's Castle' at Cordoba,</citetitle> 
<citetitle pubwork="journal">Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society,</citetitle> 
1940, pp. 47&ndash;54.</bibliomixed>

</bibliography>

regards, Terry