Comment by SamBam
1 year ago
I'm playing with this a little bit.
Can this deal with varied styles of inline citations within a single text? For example, APA lets you say both "This study found X (Shmoe, 2021)" as well as "Shmoe (2021) found X." There are other ways you might vary it as well. For instance, you might say "Shmoe (2021) found X (p.191)."
This kind of variation is used all the time in papers, but I don't see how I could do that in Monster.
I feel like it would be nice to be able to insert a citation and then tell it how to format that. You should be able to type in in yourself. For instance, I don't expect Monster to have a dropdown for "Shmoe and colleagues (2021) found X," but I should be able to hit "insert a citation," connect it to the article, and then hand-type "Shmoe and colleagues (2021)" so that the whole thing is associated with the reference.
Another random thought after playing with this for a few minutes: It should be easier to just drag in an image, without needing to go to insert-image and then drag in the image.
You can insert narrative-citations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8i-EY_UBk&t=220s
Ah, ok, cool. Pity it can't be hand-edited, but that should generally cover it.
A couple little bug reports on citations (let me know if you want this elsewhere, I don't have to clutter this thread):
- APA doesn't include a second period between an author's initial and the date, but you have that in the bibliography. E.g. Schmoe, J.. (2021).
- Many places list DOIs as urls, e.g. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203108352, but MonsterWriter tries to import that as a webpage, so I have to remove the part before the number
- I added the following citation by DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2013.836655. In the metadata in the citation popup, it correctly lists the lead author's name as "Berland, Matthew," but it comes out in both the citation and the bibliography as "Berl, ."
- I wasn't sure if there was a way to add a citation where an author had written a specific chapter of an edited book. [1]. I could create a reference to a book, and then I could list a chapter, but the inline citation was weird (Shmoe, 2013, chaps Chapter Name) instead of just (Shmoe, 2013), and the bibliography section didn't include the chapter name. Basically it just treated it like a page number, instead of as an authored section of an edited book.
- Speaking of which, every time I went to edit that reference the drop down switched back to "page number" instead of "chapter."
1. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references...