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Handling Publications, Preprints, and Talks in `local.bib`

The file local.bib stores all our publications. To handle it, you must follow some general rules when adding your BibTeX file. First, please use regular article types, do not use fancy types like @inbook, only incollection, article, book or phdthesis, we usually do not have many more.

Each BibTex entry has a couple of extra fields that must be submitted. These are:

  • sortauthor: needed to determine the order in which articles appear on the website
  • group: for internal documentation and to coordinate with evobib
  • _doi: to display the DOI prominently on the website
  • keyword: to determine the project in which the research was carried out and to provide three (only three) keywords.

Field sortauthor in local.bib

A field that makes sure the order on the website is handled well (only not required for talks, where we have clear dates). To find out what to put here, please go to the website and check in which section your paper will appear (preprint, forthcoming, or the current year). Then go to the top-most article in the section and check the formula. E.g. in the year 2024, we have the article by Kim and Tjuka (2024).

Kim, Y. and A. Tjuka (2024): Cognitive science from the perspective of linguistic diversity. Cognitive Science 48.2. 1-5.

The BibTeX entry looks as follows:

@Article{Kim2024,
  author      = {Kim, Yoolim and Tjuka, Annika},
  title       = {Cognitive science from the perspective of linguistic diversity},
  number      = {2},
  pages       = {1-5},
  volume      = {48},
  _doi        = {10.1111/cogs.13418},
  sortauthor  = {Papers, 3}, 

  journal     = {Cognitive Science},
  keywords    = {_calc3, cognitive science, linguistic diversity, concepts},
  publisher   = {Wiley},
  year        = {2024},
}

The sortauthor field shows Papers, 3 as value, so any new paper in 2024, should be Papers, 4. From Papers, 9 on, we would start to use Papers, A, Papers, B, etc.

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