Publisher city and state

[historicist]

Sometimes my footnotes or bibliographies require just the city for a publisher, but sometimes they want the city and state. For instance, Princeton University Press is sometimes "Princeton, NJ" and sometimes just "Princeton." Similarly, Harvard UP is in Cambridge MA but Cambridge UP is in Cambridge, England. So you can see why a distinction is sometimes required.

If I want to be able to generate different kinds of citations to meet these variable demands, is there a way I can do that *within* the "City" field of the publisher? Or would I have to move the state (or country, say) to another field altogether?

I'm using Chicago 15thA footnotes, so for a book chapter it looks like this:

a, “t,” $in $v,$ ed. $e|~, ~f` (`l: u$, $d|~; reprint, ~u12`)`

yours
Michael

[Jon]

I'm not sure I understand. You want to cite different cities for a publisher depending on the format? You can't do that unless, as you say, you use another field for cities and in the format choose between the standard field (l) and the secondary field (e.g. u1, for user 1).

Jon
Sonny Software

[Jasso]

I'd like to continue this topic. It would be nice if for the future versions you could either:
a) Add a separate field for Publisher state/country (or even separate fields for both?)
b) Make the city field parse differently in different formats.

This is to accommodate different citation formats, for example, simply the difference between APA 5 and APA 6. The latter requires either a state abbreviation or country after the city.

APA 5:
• New York: Sage (US)
• Bristol: Intellect (non-US)

APA 6:
• New York, NY: Sage (US)
• Bristol, England: Intellect (non-US)

I know this can be done with existing free fields and a little tinkering. But because APA6 is so influential and it is included in your default format arsenal, perhaps you should accommodate for it?