Sonny Software

Hi,

I'm a new user and have fairly successfully created a new format to suit my needs. I've managed to iron out all the glitches on my own, except for one minor problem, which is driving me a bit nuts: I've got an extra comma in one of my reference types (due to an empty field I assume). I've studied the manual yet can't seem to fix this last problem. Maybe I can't see the forest anymore for all the trees.

Here's my format for the conference proceedings reference type:

a (d): t. f. l: u, $S. $p-`.` $Online verfügbar: $z (u1)`.`¬

And here's an example of what's being output when the page range field is empty:

Efimova, L., S. Hendrick und A. Anjewierden (2005): Finding "the life between buildings": An approach for defining a weblog community. Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations (AOIR'06). Chicago: Association of Internet Researchers,. Online verfügbar: URL (7.08.07).

Note the comma before the period after the word Researchers in the last line. That shouldn't be there.

I did not have this problem until I added the last bit

$Online verfügbar: $z (u1)

to my format. I had to add that though, to indicate that these proceedings are online, and I needed a different format here than for my Internet reference type. I'm having the same problem with my journal article ref. type, too, ever since I added the same code to accommodate URLs. Have I made a mistake here (or is this one of those cases where Bookends has trouble with punctuation, as described in the manual)?


TIA,
Jenna

Hi,

The issue here is telling Bookends to output the comma only if pages follow. I made this little tweak, and in my (rather shallow) testing it seemed to work OK:

a (d): t. f. l: u$, S. $p-`.` $Online verfügbar: $z (u1)`.`¬

(all I did was move the "quote mark", $, before the comma).

Jon
Sonny Software

Brilliant, moving the quote mark seemed to do the trick. Thanks so much for the quick reply, Jon!