WeRelate:Suggestions/Abbreviated source citation for second and subsequent appearance

If the same source is referenced more than once on a page (with different page number and/or text each time), display the full citation the first time it appears on the page, and an abbreviated version the second and subsequent times it appears.

The abbreviated version would be automatically generated by WeRelate and would consist of:

• surnames of authors
• source title (but not subtitle)
• publication year

For example, the full citation of Source:Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895 is:

Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895).

The abbreviated citation would be:

Goldthwaite. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895. (1895).

In another example, the full citation of Source:Parker, John Lord. History of the Twenty-Second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters, and the Third Light Battery, in the War of (786779) is:

Parker, John Lord, and Robert Goldthwaite Carter. History of the Twenty-Second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters, and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion. (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1991).

The abbreviated citation would be:

Parker and Carter. History of the Twenty-Second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters, and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion. (c1991).

In all cases, the text of the citation would link to the source page (as it does today).

Another option would be automatic resorting of sources which group the same sources together and then use "Ibid". Sometimes when I use the same source more than once (especially when quoting from it), I use a single source but put the unique source references with the quotes in the Text box of the source reference. -Moverton 16:31, 5 July 2017 (UTC)