What does a 'b' mean, which is after an expression of a year?

Keuk-Tae Kim filted:
[nq:1]Hello. What does 'b' mean in the follwing sentece? (The 'b' is after the year '1975' ) Campbell (1975b) celebrates "ordinary social knowing." I looked up the dictionary, but couldn't find a suitable definition.[/nq]
This looks like a reference to an entry in a bibliography...usually, it's enough to cite the author's name in the body of the work...occasionally, wh

[nq:1]Hello. What does 'b' mean in the follwing sentece? (The 'b' is after the year '1975' ) Campbell (1975b) celebrates "ordinary social knowing."[/nq]
It means that the reference list has more than one source for which Campbell is the author and which was published in 1975. The reference sought is the one after Campbell (1975a).
Campbell, Tinker-bell

1973 Iraq is a Nice Place .

[nq:1]Hello. What does 'b' mean in the follwing sentece? (The 'b' is after the year '1975' ) Campbell (1975b) celebrates "ordinary social knowing."[/nq]
The second book published by Campbell in that year.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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Keuk-Tae Kim:
[nq:2]What does 'b' mean in the follwing sentece?... Campbell (1975b) celebrates "ordinary social knowing."[/nq]
Steve Hayes:
[nq:1]The second book published by Campbell in that year.[/nq]
No. Martin Ambuhl and R.H. Draney had it right. It's nothing to do with order of publication.

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[nq:1]Keuk-Tae Kim: Steve Hayes:[/nq]
[nq:2]The second book published by Campbell in that year.[/nq]
[nq:1]No. Martin Ambuhl and R.H. Draney had it right. It's nothing to do with order of publication.[/nq]
Indeed.
Even though you didn't ask the original question,. perhaps I should expand my answer to avoid any risk of confusion...
The second book listed in the bibliography that

[nq:2]Keuk-Tae Kim: Steve Hayes: No. Martin Ambuhl and R.H. Draney had it right. It's nothing to do with order of publication.[/nq]
[nq:1]Indeed. Even though you didn't ask the original question,. perhaps I should expand my answer to avoid any risk of ... that was published in the same year by an author bearing the same name (not necessarily the same author, either).[/nq]
I don't have a st

[nq:2]Indeed. Even though you didn't ask the original question,. perhaps ... bearing the same name (not necessarily the same author, either).[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't have a style guide to back this up, but I would consider it bad style to not distinguish two authors of the same name clearly, as in A. Campbell (1975a) (1975b) B. Campbell (1975a) (1975b)[/nq]
Indeed. Otherwise there's no point in

[nq:1]Keuk-Tae Kim: Steve Hayes:[/nq]
[nq:2]The second book published by Campbell in that year.[/nq]
[nq:1]No. Martin Ambuhl and R.H. Draney had it right. It's nothing to do with order of publication.[/nq]
Steve's definition implies that books published by Campbell in that year, but not included in the bibliography, would count. That is not the case.

William R Ward (Email Remo