I can't help with the shared note problem, but thought I'd throw in what I do for citations: I construct the long (full) title of the source as a bibliography-type citation using Elizabeth Shown Mills' standards -- that then shows up as the title of the source wherever I use it. (I also use a short title for ease of reference!)

<<snipped>> thought I'd throw in what I do for citations: I construct the long (full) title of the source as a bibliography-type citation using Elizabeth Shown Mills' standards -- that then shows up as the title of the source wherever I use it. (I also use a short title for ease of reference!) <<snipped>> Yes, that's one way of handling citations - forget the individual fields (possibly), concoct the citation, slap it in one field (probably mis-using it, but what the heck!) and just ensure that one field gets printed in the reports. That's something of a last resort for me, since I've got several hundred sources that would have to be recoded. And, of course(?) that doesn't actually get us to full ESM standards since those require a bibliography entry, a first reference note and a subsequent reference note - though losing the last of those would only be an inconvenience in my view. Not sure the Americans would agree! Though I think that, as you say, this doesn't help with the citation for a shared note. Adrian