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Originally Posted by texasnightowl
Personally, I'm lucky to remember author's names. I would never remember a publisher name. So if there are multiple authors, I use the most well known one OR if it is a particular story or chapter that matters I use the author of that story OR I use the aforementioned "Anthology" or "Various". But I personally can't think of any situation where I would prefer to leave the Author field blank and try to reference by publisher.
OK, maybe one instance...if it was the Encyclopedia Britannica, then maybe...but I would probably just use "Encyclopedia" as the author  |
Your personal approach, for me to many OR's: After some time you don't know any more which of your OR's you made your decicion upon. I think in such situations it's better to follow the general rule public libraries are using:
If there are more than three authors, take the the first and add 'et al.' which is the abbreviation for 'et alii', the Latin expression for 'and others'.
Best regards
mumdigau