Hi Bruce/John,

Thanks for getting back to me. So I guess your notes file would look something like this?


#+TITLE: Bradley, J. (1973): Essential Mathematics For Economists

* Dynamic models: the consumption function
[[cite:bradley1973es][p164]]

* Changes in Capital Stock
[[cite:bradley1973es][p188]]

* The Accelerator-Multiplier Model
[[cite:bradley1973es][p200]]


So when when it comes time to author your paper, if you run org-store-link on any of these, the description gets stripped off the link, so that only cite:bradley1973es is stored (which obviously defeats the purpose). And if you copy the link over by hand, it maps back to the document bradley197es.org <http://bradley197es.org/> (not the actual note).

Am I missing anything?

Adam

> On 21 Feb 2021, at 12:21, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 10:31 PM Adam Sneller <adam.sneller@ms2.digital> wrote:
>
>> I currently use org-ref and helm-bibtex to manage my database of academic sources, with one notes file per source. A lot of my sources are books. So note typically grow over time, as I add multiple headers (each pertaining to a chapter or topic/note taken from that source).
>>
>> But now I want to produce a citation that references the page numbers where I captured that note...
>>
>> What is the recommended way to handle this? Are you breaking notes into individual files, each with their own @inbook citation?
>
> Generally speaking, referencing page numbers and sections of a cited
> source is not handled by dedicated citations, but rather by
> annotations on the containing citation (book etc.).
>
> So in the pandoc syntax, for example, [@book, p23].
>
> I do the same with notes, and just included the specific citation with
> the note if I need to maintain the specific source page.
>
> Bruce
>