BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ apacite , InBook Article , PDFLaTeX (Texlive 2008)

[neo.patrix]

Hello,

I am in doubt about way InBook references at actually given out in
my final document. I am not sure if it printed out correctly or
something is wrong. I am using JabRef , Kile and TexLive 2008.

Here, is one of my entries in .bib file

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@InBook{ Howison2006,
	chapter = "Social dynamics of free and open source team communications",
	pages = "319-330",
	title = "Open Source Systems",
	publisher = "Springer Boston",
	year = "2006",
	editor = "E. Damiani and B. Fitzgerald and W. Scacchi and M. Scotto and G. Succi",
	author = "James Howison and Keisuke Inoue and Kevin Crowston",
	volume = "203",
	abstract = "xxx",
	doi = "xxx/xxxxxxxxxx_xx",
	file = ":/xxx/xxx/xxx/abc.pdf:PDF",
	keywords = "Software Development, Human Factors, Dynamic social networks, FLOSS teams, bug fixing, communications, longitudinal social network analysis",
	owner = "xxx",
	timestamp = "2009.04.24"
}

which appears in my final PDF document as

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Howison, J., Inoue, K., & Crowston, K. (2006). Open source systems. In E. Damiani,B. Fitzgerald, W. Scacchi, M. Scotto, & G. Succi (Eds.), (Vol. 203, p. 319-330).Springer Boston.

Now, is this normal behavior with apacite or something is wrong? , since...

• Chapter name is not mentioned, instead only book name
• In "editor names" . I expect book name there.

Just be sure another InBook and output in PDF

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@INBOOK{Osinski2005,
  chapter = {Carrot: Design of a Flexible and Efficient Web Information
	Retrieval Framework},
  pages = {439-444},
  title = {Advances in Web Intelligence},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg},
  year = {2005},
  editor = {P.S. Szczepaniak and Adam Niewiadomski and Janusz Kacprzyk},
  author = {Stanis\law Osi\'{n}ski and Dawid Weiss},
  volume = {3528/2005},
  doi = {xx.xxx/xxxxxxxxx_xx},
  file = {:/xxx/xxx/def.pdf:PDF},
  keywords = {Information Retrieval, Clustering, Systems Design},
  owner = {xxx},
  timestamp = {2009.04.26}
}

in document

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Osinski, S., & Weiss, D. (2005). Advances in web intelligence. In P. Szczepaniak, A. Niewiadomski, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), (Vol. 3528/2005, p. 439-444). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

[frabjous]

I'd try @INCOLLECTION rather than @INBOOK here. Use

title={...}

for the title of the chapter, and

booktitle={...}

for the title of the book.

[neo.patrix]

Thanx frabjous,

Does that mean @InBook for apacite is buggy or simply not
applicable to what I am trying to reference? Since publisher
website mentions that article is from book , I simply assumed
InBook would be applicable syntax.

But on second though it is not exactly a book as Publisher
mentions but rather a collection of articles. So Ya,
InCollection would definitely be better approach.

[frabjous]

Oh, I'm not really an expert. I just starting using BibTeX myself, and I've never used the apacite style. However, according to the BibTeX article in Wikipedia, @inbook is for "a part of a book, usually untitled", whereas @incollection is for "a part of a book having its own title." So yeah, I think @incollection is the proper thing to use here.

Also, personally, I'd use

publisher={Springer}
address={Boston}

instead of publisher={Springer Boston}.

I've noticed a lot of publisher websites actually allow you to export a BibTeX entry these days. Don't know if that's true here.