I'm using the SBL formatting style that Danny Zacharias developed, and it's been working just fine up until this morning. Now, instead of getting SBL footnotes in the proper format, I get... something else.
For example, a citation from this:
{Rambo, 1993, Understanding Religious Conversion@20-43}
Should look like this:
Lewis R. Rambo, Understanding Religious Conversion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 20-43.
But it ends up looking like this:
Rambo, 199320-43.
Redoing it as Chicago 15th, which is nearly identical in form, produces the correct result. I've tried this with Bookends 9.2.2 (using the old SBL guide) and with 10.0.3 (using the newer guide). Any ideas?
My SBL just broke!
The example you show indicates that the format you are using now has no before or after text entered for cited pages. Check the SBL format and see if this should be the case (second tab, at the bottom). Are you perhaps using "SBL footnote" directly instead of "SBL Bib" (which then uses SBL footnote for in-text citations)?
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
I just reinstalled the SBL formats and discovered what the problem was, partly: the SBL Bib format didn't link to SBL footnote for in-text citations. So I adjusted that and now that part is working. Now the only thing missing is that I'm not getting a period (.) at the end of the footnote cite. I seem to recall this was a problem at one point, and that there was a solution, but I can't remember what it is.Jon wrote:The example you show indicates that the format you are using now has no before or after text entered for cited pages. Check the SBL format and see if this should be the case (second tab, at the bottom). Are you perhaps using "SBL footnote" directly instead of "SBL Bib" (which then uses SBL footnote for in-text citations)?
Jon
Sonny Software
Yes, that's the problem. The trailing period is there in the SBL Bib and Footnote formats, but it's not showing up in my document. I used to be able to add "@12" to the end of a cite to have it come back as ", 12." Now, to get the period, I have to do "@12."Jon wrote:The SBL Bib format calls for a period after cited pages. If you remove that the trailing period in your footnote should not appear.
Jon
Sonny Software
Do this:
1. Open SBL Bib (Edit in Biblio -> Formats Manager).
2. Click to Bib & Citation tab.
3. At the bottom, place a period in field After (in Cited Pages).
4. Close.
5. Scan from your word processor.
6. Choose SBL Bib as your format.
7. You should see a period after the cited page (12).
I just tried this with both Mellel and Word. If it's not working for you, please send me the SBL Bib format you are using.
Jon
Sonny Software
1. Open SBL Bib (Edit in Biblio -> Formats Manager).
2. Click to Bib & Citation tab.
3. At the bottom, place a period in field After (in Cited Pages).
4. Close.
5. Scan from your word processor.
6. Choose SBL Bib as your format.
7. You should see a period after the cited page (12).
I just tried this with both Mellel and Word. If it's not working for you, please send me the SBL Bib format you are using.
Jon
Sonny Software
Yes, that did it, thanks. I kept trying to do those steps on the SBL footnote format, assuming that was where it needed to be changed.Jon wrote:Do this:
1. Open SBL Bib (Edit in Biblio -> Formats Manager).
2. Click to Bib & Citation tab.
3. At the bottom, place a period in field After (in Cited Pages).
4. Close.
5. Scan from your word processor.
6. Choose SBL Bib as your format.
7. You should see a period after the cited page (12).
I just tried this with both Mellel and Word. If it's not working for you, please send me the SBL Bib format you are using.
Jon
Sonny Software