Thanks! I will give that a try.
> On Nov 17, 2014, at 5:21 AM, Jan Jakob Bornheim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On 17 Nov, 2014, at 01:26, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2014, at 22:55, Jason Tilley wrote:
>>
>>> I recently switched from JabRef to BibDesk since JabRef is dependent on
>>> Java and Apple is dependent on making Java a major pain. I would like to
>>> automatically create cite keys that are in the same style as my existing
>>> bibliography. Currently my cite keys are like the following examples:
>>>
>>> 1) McCracken_2004 for a single author
>>> 2) McCracken_and_Maxwell_2004 for two authors
>>> 3) McCracken_et_al_2004 for 3 or more authors
>>>
>>> The closest I can get to this with a custom cite key format is using the
>>> string:
>>>
>>> %a[][_et_al]1_%Y
>>>
>>> This works for works with one or three or more authors well, but this can’t
>>> handle instances with 2 authors. Does anyone know how to do this? Is there
>>> maybe a way to embed an if statement in my format string? Any help with
>>> this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> No, this level of complexity is not supported.
>>
>> Christiaan
>
> My usual answer: You could use AppleScript. It’s not very elegant, nor fast,
> but it gets the job done.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan Jakob
>
> Something like this should get you started:
>
> tell document 1 of application "BibDesk"
>
> set thePubs to selection
> set theLetters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" # these are the unique
> identifiers added to ambigous cite keys
> set theUsedCiteKeys to {} # we have to keep track of the cite keys
> already assigned in this AppleScript run to avoid assigning the same cite
> key twice
>
> repeat with thePub in thePubs
> set shouldRepeat to true
> set i to 1
>
> set theAuthors to authors of thePub
> set theYear to publication year of thePub
> set theAuthorsCount to (get count of theAuthors)
>
> # Determine the cite key format
>
> if theAuthorsCount is 1 then
> set theGeneratedCiteKey to last name of item 1 of
> theAuthors & "_" & theYear
> else if theAuthorsCount is 2 then
> set theGeneratedCiteKey to last name of item 1 of
> theAuthors & "_and_" & last name of item 2 of theAuthors & "_" & theYear
> else
> set theGeneratedCiteKey to last name of item 1 of
> theAuthors & "_et_al_" & theYear
> end if
>
> # Now let's test whether there is already any publication that
> has the same cite key or if we have already used the same cite key in this
> session
>
> set the theProvisionalCiteKey to theGeneratedCiteKey
>
> repeat while shouldRepeat is true
> set theOtherPub to get (publications whose cite key is
> theProvisionalCiteKey)
> if theOtherPub is {} and theProvisionalCiteKey is not
> in theUsedCiteKeys then
> set shouldRepeat to false
> else
> set theProvisionalCiteKey to
> theGeneratedCiteKey & "_" & item i of theLetters
> set i to i + 1
> end if
> end repeat
>
> set theFinalCiteKey to theProvisionalCiteKey
>
> # Now we assign the new unique (at least within the thePubs
> group) cite key
>
> set cite key of thePub to theFinalCiteKey
> set theUsedCiteKeys to theUsedCiteKeys & theFinalCiteKey
>
> end repeat
>
> end tell
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