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It’s not, of course, ideal that details of amendments and the like are not
automatically formatted; but although this feature may be introduced in a
future release, for the present the approach taken here will probably do in
most cases.
Books
Basic Use
Books function exactly as in regular biblatex. They should be given the
@book type. The most commonly used fields are as follows:
title The title of the book. Oscola requires that this be
given with significant words capitalized, and it is
recommended that you enter it in this way in the
database. (If other styles you use require only the first
letter to be capitalized, the title can without too much
difficulty be converted; but it is not practically possible
partially to capitalize an initially uncapitalized
title.)
subtitle The subtitle, if any. This will be used only in the first
or full citation (where it will be printed after the title,
separated by a colon). (See example 84.)
author The author or authors of the work. If there is more
than one author, their names should be given separated
by ‘and’. It’s up to you whether you prefer to
use the form Frederick Bloggs or Bloggs, Frederick—
either will work. Since oscola requires full names,
where available, to be given in citations, you should
give the full name if you have it. No more than the
required number of names will be printed; any surplus
will be abbreviated to ‘and others’, as oscola
requires. 41
editor An editor or editors of the work, if there is one. In
some cases, if there is only an editor but no author
(for instance, the editor of a collection of essays)
this is used as the alternative to the author, in other
cases it is additional information. The formatting and
printing requirements under oscola are different, but
the style takes care of that. Use the same format for
names as in the author field.
translator Like the editor field, and used in the same way.
41 You can also use ‘and others’ yourself, if you like; but it’s good practice to include as many
names as you know, since different styles may have different ideas about when to abbreviate,
and the database file is supposed to be agnostic about such matters.
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