[Bibulus-dev] Jurabib

[Thomas Widmann]

Hi,

I was just skimming through the (German) documentation to jurabib, and
I found the following fields and entry types that we might want to
consider:

New fields:

- shortauthor: This is a short version of the author field.  It's not
  entirely clear to me why this cannot be generated automatically.

- shorttitle: We definitely want this (although it will often be
  better to specifiy it in the text document and not in the
  bibliography itself, because the best abbreviation depends on what
  other titles a title needs to be different from); it seems to be
  much used in German law writing, where every law seems to have an
  agreed abbreviation.

  Perhaps we could also use this for journal abbreviations?

- urldate: Specified when an URL was last checked.  Could also be an
  attribute to <url>, I guess.

- volumetitle: Sometimes volumes in series have separate titles.

- titleaddon: For something following the title that isn't really part
  of it.

- booktitleaddon: Same for booktitles.

(- volumetitle: I didn't find it in jurabib, but it would be logical.)

New entry types:

- @PERIODICAL: Basically a journal that is cited by volume, not year.
  This is a bit odd, since it would look exactly the same as <journal>
  in some citation styles.  I don't know whether it's needed.

- @COMMENTED: Seems to be used for legal commentaries.

- @JURTHESIS: I haven't found out what the difference between this and
  a normal @THESIS is.  I'd better check again another day when I'm
  less tired. :-)

Any comments?

/Thomas
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