Every generic source in \u0192h<\/span><\/span> takes its footnote, short footnote and bibliography entry from the same three patterns, called generic source formats<\/em>. Change one and every generic source changes with it: there’s no way to have one layout for parish registers and another for wills. (For that you need templated sources, where each template carries its own formats.)<\/p>\n The formats have been there since \u0192h<\/span><\/span>7, but because \u0192h<\/span><\/span> builds them for you, most people never look at them. This article explains what they control, how to choose the fields that go into each one, and what to leave out. For the full detail, see Generic Source Formats<\/a> and Generic Source Formats Dialog<\/a> in the Help file.<\/p>\n There are three generic source formats:<\/p>\n Templated sources have a fourth format, for the record title. Generic sources don’t, because \u0192h<\/span><\/span> doesn’t generate their titles: you type those yourself.<\/p>\n The formats also decide what you see in the Citation List Pane<\/em> at the bottom of the Property Box. It shows each citation’s footnote unless you pick something else with Display Citation As<\/em>, on the menu at the bottom of the pane.<\/p>\n The dialog will let you include Text from Source and notes, but the Help advises against it. Inside a citation they are turned into plain text and cut short if they’re long, and you only get one of each. Tables, in particular, come out badly.<\/p>\n Leave them unticked and add them to the report instead. On the Sources<\/em> tab of Report Options (or Book Settings), the Append from Source Record<\/em> and Append from Citation<\/em> options put the Text from Source and notes below the citation, all of them and with their formatting intact. Don’t use both methods, or you’ll get everything twice. See Report Options Dialog: Sources Tab<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Bibliography is always in alphabetical order, and identical entries are merged into one. So the fields you choose for the Bibliography format decide how many entries you get: if two generic sources produce the same text, they share an entry. Bear this in mind before you cut the format down to one or two fields.<\/p>\n For more control, tick Customize<\/em> and edit the format yourself. Generic formats use the same building blocks as source template formats (data references, functions and angle-bracket expressions) with one exception: there are no field codes, because those belong to templates. Where a template format has In the Footnote and Short Footnote formats, fields on the citation are reached through What the Formats Control<\/h2>\n
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Choosing the Fields<\/h2>\n
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Leave Out Text from Source and Notes<\/h2>\n
Bibliography Entries Are Merged<\/h2>\n
Going Further: Customize<\/h2>\n
{Author}<\/code>, a generic format uses a data reference in curly brackets, such as {%SOUR.AUTH%}<\/code>.<\/p>\nCUR~CITN<\/code>. These references don’t work in the Bibliography format, which isn’t tied to any one citation.<\/p>\n