[texhax] Problem with BIBTEX (apa-good.bst file)

[Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi]

Hi Steve, 

Wanted to let you know, I changed lines 980-990 as you have explained over the email in the .bst file. But it didn't work. I still do not see any editor names displayed...

Thank you for your help anyways.
Lakshmi

-----Original Message-----
From: stephenhicks at gmail.com [mailto:stephenhicks at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Hicks
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:32 PM
To: Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi
Cc: support at tug.org
Subject: Re: [texhax] Problem with BIBTEX (apa-good.bst file)

I'm looking at the apa-good.bst source here:

http://github.com/whenders0n/thesis/blob/78c5338cfb25b2a0e3b7b31e4babee394d5b1088/extrrrastuff/APA/apa-good.bst

Note that on line 978 (FUNCTION {inbook}) there are two "if$"
statements (this is a postfix language, like postscript or RPN
calculators).  The editor fields are only output if the author is
empty (I'm not sure what's going on in the other branch since I've
never found a good reference to bst).  In any case, you might try
copying the bst file and replacing it with a new one in your local
directory with a slightly different name, and change lines 980-990
(inclusive) to

  author empty$
    { format.editors "author and editor" output.check
      editor format.key output
    }
    { format.authors output.nonnull
      editor empty$
      'skip$
      { format.editors output.nonnull }
      if$
    }
  if$

I've certainly removed functionality here, since I don't know what's
up with crossref, but this could maybe possibly get the job done for
you...?

Cheers,
steve

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi
<lchand at lsuhsc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, a postdoctoral fellow, in Louisiana State
> University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.
>
>
>
> I am using LATEX to write a journal article. I use the “apa-good.bst” style
> file in order to run BIBTEX.  I need to include a book Chapter in the
> references list.  In the .bib file,  when I use the heading @INBOOK and then
> give the required information like author  name, editor name, year, pages,
> publisher etc.  I do not see the “editor names” appearing in the references
> page when I compile the tex file.  I am not sure what the problem is and  I
> am wondering if you could help me fix this issue.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lakshmi
>
>
>
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