Multiple publishers

[Wobble]

I have just been tidying up my SBL citations the Style guide states,

6.1.4.4 Listing Multiple Publishers

Books are often published cooperatively by a pair of publishers. In such cases, it is necessary to cite both publishers; the two should be listed in their normal way and separated by a semicolon. Places of publication and publishers’ names should not be combined and separated by slashes:

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Fribourg: Presses Universitaires
Not: Göttingen/Fribourg: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/Presses Universitaires


SBL Press, The SBL Handbook of Style, Second Edition. (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2014), 83.

And I implement this in Bookends, and if so how?

For example, At the moment I get.

Beasley-Murray, George R. John. Word Biblical Commentary 36. Nashville, Tenn., Waco, Tex.: Thomas Nelson Publishers; Word Books, 1999.

At the moment my citation format ends with the code

Code: Select all

l: u, d.

Thanks in advance.

[Jon]

If you always use SBL, the simplest thing would be to enter the information as you want it output in the publishers field, and omit the location as a separate item. E.g.

Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson Publishers; Waco, Tex.: Word Books

Alternatively, you could leave the data as entered now and repurpose a User field to hold hold the SBL-compliant location/publisher data. Then in the format use a conditional group to tell Bookends which to use.

For example, assume you relabel User 5 to "SBL pubs", your format could include

{u5^l: u}

This will output the SBL-required publisher information if it is entered in User5, but if that field is empty will output the usual single location and publisher. So only use User5 when combining publishers.

Jon
Sonny Software