5.12 Fields Useful for Reviews, Citations and Quotations  ↑

5.12.2 Attribution

The word Attribution can be used as both a label and a type.

This field type will be inferred for a label of Attribution.

A Collection should have only one Attribution field.

When editing, an attribution field will appear as several lines of editable text.

An Attribution field is meant to be used with a class value of quote or work. The user may enter any text here to appear below the body of the quote to indicate, at a minimum, the quote’s author, but also optionally the quote’s date and name and type of the work from which the quotation was taken.

This field would typically be used as an alternative to breaking out the various components of an attribution as separate fields. There are pros and cons to each approach. By breaking out Author, Work Title, Date and Work Type as separate fields, you can have greater control over the way the Attribution is ultimately formatted when using Merge Templates, and you can also sort by these individual fields.

On the other hand, if you are using the Streamlined Reading option for a Collection, and you identify some of your Notes in that Collection as quotes (through use of the Class field), Notenik has special logic to do two useful things:

• You can use Markdown, including Wiki Style Links, within the Attribution field, so that you can link from the Attribution to other Notes in your Collection – such as entries in a Bibliography.

• The Attribution field will appear below the Body of the quote on the Display tab, as you would normally expect to find it.

• Default styling will be provided for the blockquote and the attribution paragraph. Note that this styling will place a long hyphen before the contents of the Attribution field (so nothing like this needs to be placed within the contents of the field).

See the Context Menu item to Assign Attribution for a way to automatically compose the contents of this field.