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- I have several titles in my bibliography that have decades in them, e.g. 1960s or 1970s. When I scan my document, the titles turn to "1960S" and "1970S." They have lower case "s"s in the reference window. A minor annoyance, but is there any way to fix it?

- This is also minor, but is there any way to adjust the symbols that bookends uses, so that it does not use "dumb" quotation marks (i.e. straight up and down quotes) but instead "smart quotes," i.e. ones that point around the words inside the quote (as regular Times New Roman quotes are within Word, for example)? It is fairly common in the humanities to have titles that have quotes inside them-- actually, I have asked another formatting question about them before-- such as:

Rome, Adam. “'Give Earth a Chance': The Environmental Movement and the Sixties.â€

Bess wrote:- I have several titles in my bibliography that have decades in them, e.g. 1960s or 1970s. When I scan my document, the titles turn to "1960S" and "1970S." They have lower case "s"s in the reference window. A minor annoyance, but is there any way to fix it?

Sounds like your format is set so that titles are to be output in a changed case. If so, enter these examples as exceptions in Preferences (Scan & Bib, Don't Change Case).

This is also minor, but is there any way to adjust the symbols that bookends uses, so that it does not use "dumb" quotation marks (i.e. straight up and down quotes) but instead "smart quotes," i.e. ones that point around the words inside the quote (as regular Times New Roman quotes are within Word, for example)? It is fairly common in the humanities to have titles that have quotes inside them-- actually, I have asked another formatting question about them before-- such as:

Rome, Adam. “'Give Earth a Chance': The Environmental Movement and the Sixties.â€

If you're smart enough to enter smart apostrophes, Bookends will spit them back, too.

touché. I guess I am not smart enough-- how do you do this? I press the quotation key and dumb quotes go in.

You can place smart quotes using the option key and the option and shift key in combination with the key on which you have your quotes sign (the exact settings depending on the language of your keyboard/system). You can also use the so-called keyboard viewer to check where these keys are and what key combination will produce what kind of quote. The keyboard viewer is accessible via the language (flag) menu in the menu bar, you can set it to be visible in System Preferences > International > Input Menu