Hi,
my problem is the following:
In my text the in-text-citations appear like this: Author (year), e.g. Smith (1999)
If I use to consecutive citations by the same author in the same year, evereything’s ok - I have Smith (1999a, b).
But with two different years the following problem arises: Smith (1999, (2001). How can I make the unnecessary middle bracket diappear?
Thank you!!
phinchen
Thank you! I’ve tried it, but unfortunately it doesn’t work (or I made a mistake…).
I have to omit the years of both citations and the author of one of them. My original citation has several authors which I report as “et al.”.
What I get after editing the citation is this:
Smith et al.)
The last bracket remains…
Hi Leanne,
thank you for your help. I don’t know yet how often I will have to reformat the manuscript - if the first journal accepts my submission, everything will be fine… 
Since we’re using country-specific data, my paper isn’t written in english.The following example ist from Gallagher (2003), published in “Accounting and Finance”:
“In the USA, Chevalier and Ellison (1997, 1999a, 1999b) have been significant contributors, specifically evaluating…”
In the meantime I’ve found a quick fix solution (removing authors and years from both articles and adding the complete citation as a suffix), but since a lot of work is still expecting me, and some of my colleagues have similar problems, I would be happy to know a permanent solution.
But if the “|” does not help, for the moment I’m fine with the solution I’ve found (with your help!).
Thanks again!!
P.S.: The articles I’d like to cite are
Baker, George, Michael Gibbs and Bengt Holmstrom (1993):Hierarchies and Compensation: A Case Study, European Economic Review 37, 366-378.
Baker, George, Michael Gibbs and Bengt Holmstrom (1994): The Internal Economics of the Firm: Evidence from Personnel Data, Quarterly Journal of Economics 109, 881-919.
Message Edited by phinchen on 01-12-2010 02:37 PM
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Similar, or the same problem?
I’m trying to use one citation to cite the same two authors from two publications on different dates.
It comes out like this (Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975, , 1980) I can’t get rid of the extra comma, no matter what I do.
It happens the same if I put the authors into the text and just leave the dates in the citation, e.g. (1991, , 2005).
I’m using Endnote x and Harvard style.
Many thanks
Many thanks for this, especially the attachment illustrations. It was the second of these that sorted it.
If you scroll down the ‘template’ page you showed, there’s a little box labelled ‘multiple citation separator’ which had a comma in it (which I’m pretty sure I didn’t put there!). I deleted it, and the extra comma seems to have disappeared.
:smileyvery-happy:
I spoke too soon. Removing the comma also removed the comma every time I had a multiple citation.
I’ve downloaded a new Harvard and that hasn’t made any difference.
I’ve attached (I hope) the style I’ve been using, which isn’t much tweaked from the original I don’t think.
any advice welcome
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