Hi I love paperpile but something doesn’t seem to be working as it should… or I am doing it wrong…
I have two books saved in very similar ways in my Paperpile Library. Each has a reference to the whole book stored plus seperate Book chapter references. In one case each chapter has their own pdf file, in the other case I have a single pdf file for the whole book.
In the second case (single pdf for whole book) whenever I try to cite a chapter using Insert Citattion in a google Docs obce I have selected the chaper it actually inserts in in a reference for the wholebook UNLESS I set the whole book as a book chapter - then it cites the chapter I have chosen and not the whole book.
In the first case ( where each chapter has its own pdf file - it cites the chapter correctly even when there is an entry ( with no associated pdf) for the whole book.
Hopefully flagging this up is helpful. I have a work around… but still.
Welcome to our forum, @tommy_banana! Regardless of attachments, citation formatting is determined by the metadata Type field. Book and Book Chapter are different types of sources which result in different formatting, so currently any chapters you need to cite specifically will require their own entry in your library.
The request to handle this differently / more intuitively has been on our radar for a while, and we do hope to find better solutions for it in the future. I’ve added your +1 to the topic on our tracker.
Something similar happens to me but I have no pdf uploded at all.
This appears to be a bug. Your answer doesn’t catch the point.
We both have different reference types for the book chapter and the whole book, BUT when one tries to insert the reference to the single chapter and select it, it results in inserting the reference to the whole book.
It is not a problem of formatting: it is a problem of pointing to the correct reference! and I am still looking for a work around
Welcome to our forum, @marcelo. The references may share an identical identifer or URL, which can cause this issue. First, can you check whether the book and book chapter references are marked as duplicates in your library by going to the Duplicates filter in the filter menu? If they are, you can mark them as “Not a duplicate”, which should fix the issue:
If that is not the case, can you share the book and the book chapter references with us so that we can try to reproduce the issue? Select each reference in your library, press Ctrl-J (Windows/Linux) or Cmd-J (macOS) and email us at support@paperpile.com with the output.
Actually, after messing around reference types up and down on these records the problem has gone; it appers that for some reasons the entries had had the same identifier. Thanks for your suggestion
