bibtex: single author book with introduction by different author

Question

I've got a single-author, single-piece book (i.e., not a collection of chapters articles, or stories) which has an introduction by a separate author. I'm trying to cite the introduction.

@incollection isn't right, because you can't give the collection as a whole a single author, only an editor; @inbook isn't right, because you can't give two different authors, one for the piece and one for the book. Is @misc my only option?

Here's what I've got (which doesn't work: the bookauthor field doesn't display when I compile):

@incollection{jones,
  author={Gwyneth Jones},
  title={Introduction},
  bookauthor={Joanna Russ},
  booktitle={The Female Man},
  publisher={Gollancz},
  series={SF Masterworks},
  year={2010},
  pages={ix--xii},
}

Note that the options offered at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/275813/bibtex-how-to-cite-the-author-of-preamble-of-another-author still list the author of the book-as-a-whole as an editor, rather than an author. — Sara L. Uckelman, Jun 25 '19 at 10:25
With biblatex you could use @suppbook (or @inbook), but I guess with most BibTeX styles you are out of luck. You could try moving the field contents around a bit and abusing field contents, but what works will definitely depend on the style you use. — moewe, Jun 25 '19 at 10:28

moewe · Answer 1 · 2019-07-12T06:17:57.853

With biblatex you would use @suppbook or @inbook. @suppbook is explained by the biblatex documentation as

Supplemental material in a @book. This type is closely related to the @inbook entry type. While @inbook is primarily intended for a part of a book with its own title (e.g., a single essay in a collection of essays by the same author), this type is provided for elements such as prefaces, introductions, forewords, afterwords, etc. which often have a generic title only. Style guides may require such items to be formatted differently from other @inbook items. The standard styles will treat this entry type as an alias for @inbook.

There is, in fact, one (and only one) difference in the output between @suppbook and @inbook in the biblatex standard styles: The title of @inbook is wrapped in quotation marks, whereas the title of @suppbook is unformatted.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=biber]{biblatex}


\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@suppbook{jones:suppbook,
  author     = {Gwyneth Jones},
  title      = {Introduction},
  bookauthor = {Joanna Russ},
  booktitle  = {The Female Man},
  publisher  = {Gollancz},
  series     = {SF Masterworks},
  year       = {2010},
  pages      = {ix--xii},
}
@inbook{yones:inbook,
  author     = {Gwyneth Yones},
  title      = {Introduction},
  bookauthor = {Joanna Russ},
  booktitle  = {The Female Man},
  publisher  = {Gollancz},
  series     = {SF Masterworks},
  year       = {2011},
  pages      = {ix--xii},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}
\cite{jones:suppbook,yones:inbook}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

If you are not using biblatex, but classical BibTeX, there is no obvious good type available for entries like this. Note however, that there are some differences between individual .bst styles, the discussion here mainly focusses on the 'standard styles' plain.bst and friends and the 'standard' fields and types as discussed in the BibTeX documentation on CTAN.

@inbook would probably be the first choice, but it usually doesn't have the booktitle biblatex has, so you would give the title of the book in title and would have to give the chapter title in chapter, furthermore you can't have two authors.

@incollection has the obvious disadvantage that the author of the book could only be given as editor, which would not be accurate. Since something like "ed." would appear in the output, this is a no-go.

So you will have to resort to some creative abuse of fields.

As btxdoc says

The standard style’s thirteen entry types do reasonably well at formatting most entries, but no scheme with just thirteen formats can do everything perfectly. Thus, you should feel free to be creative in how you use these entry types (but if you have to be too creative, there’s a good chance you’re using the wrong entry type).

Don’t take the field names too seriously. Sometimes, for instance, you might have to include the publisher’s address along with the publisher’s name in the publisher field, rather than putting it in the address field. Or sometimes, difficult entries work best when you make judicious use of the note field.

For example

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}


\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@inbook{jones:inbook,
  author    = {Gwyneth Jones},
  chapter   = {Introduction},
  title     = {\textup{In Joanna Russ:} The Female Man},
  publisher = {Gollancz},
  series    = {SF Masterworks},
  pages     = {ix--xii},
}
@misc{jones:misc,
  author    = {Gwyneth Jones},
  title     = {Introduction},
  note      = {\textup{In Joanna Russ:}
               \emph{The Female Man.}
               SF Masterworks.
               Gollancz, 2010,
               pp.~ix--xii},
  publisher = {Gollancz},
  series    = {SF Masterworks},
  year      = {2010},
  pages     = {ix--xii},
}
\end{filecontents}


\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

That isn't pretty, but it produces usable output here.

What exactly works will also depend on the bibliography style you use and what you expect.

bibtex: single author book with introduction by different author

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