User's Guide to biblatex philosophy

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Jules-Henri Poincaré (1968), La science et l’hypothèse, Flammarion, Paris; trans. as La scienza e l’ipotesi, ed. by
Corrado Sinigaglia, Bompiani, Milano 2003.
@book{Poincare:1968-ORIG,
author = {Jules-Henri Poincaré},
title = {La science et l’hypothèse},
publisher = {Flammarion},
location = {Paris},
date = {1968},
related = {Poincare:1968-ITA}}
@book{Poincare:1968-ITA,
author = {Jules-Henri Poincaré},
editor = {Corrado Sinigaglia},
title = {La scienza e l’ipotesi},
publisher = {Bompiani},
location = {Milano}}
Since Biber 1.6 you can have cascading relations too (☞ Popper 1934).
@Book{key1,
...
related = {key2},
...
}
@Book{key2,
...
related = {key3},
@Book{key3,
...
}
The related entry is preceded by the translationas string which defaults to “trad. it.” for Italian documents and
“trans. as” for English documents. If you want to change it, use the relatedstring field. For example:
@book{Poincare:1968-ORIG,
author = {Jules-Henri Poincaré},
...
related = {Poincare:1968-ITA},
relatedstring = {ed.~it.}}
4 Classical and undated works
The treatment of the classical works and other writings with uncertain or omitted date is particularly difficult and
inevitably imposes some choices.
If there is a critical edition you should cite it directly, such as ☞Heidegger (2001). If you do not like this anachronistic
label you may use the shorthand field, such as ☞Kant (1968b [henceforth cited as KpV]). Note that a “shorthand intro”
is automatically printed when the entry is cited for the first time and omitted afterwards. To turn off this capability load
the option shorthandintro=false. In this case you will need a list of shorthands (\printshorthands command). If
you do not like these solutions you can use the entrysubtype field with classic value (see section 7) or the \sdcite
command (section 11).
5 Crossreferences
The philosophy styles allow you to manage entries referring to other entries through the crossref fields. This
is very useful when you have to cite two or more @incollection of the same @collection (☞ Corrocher 2009;
Federspil and Vettor 2009). In this way the @collection is printed in the bibliography and is cross-referenced inside
the @incollection, using the corresponding author-year label (the mechanism is the same for @inbook items).
When you have to cite only one @incollection of a single @collection you have three choices:
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