Punctuation in references
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:06 am
With some of the punctuation tweaks in the latest release, I wonder if it's time to petition for another one.
I work in humanities and we largely use MHRA style, or a subset of it. In common with a lot of styles, it requires publication data as
City: Publisher, Date
If (as often happens, esp. with older texts) we only know City *or* Publisher, we get:
Publisher, Date (which is fine) or
City: Date (which isn't fine, and which should be "City, Date", so that I have to do a lot of tedious manual fiddling.
I wonder if there's any way round this -- short of EndNote (ick) style "forced separators".
The other punctuation problem is parentheses. I am parentheses' bitch, to be frank. But this isn't (yet) the place for that, unless anyone else is parentheses' bitch, too...
I work in humanities and we largely use MHRA style, or a subset of it. In common with a lot of styles, it requires publication data as
City: Publisher, Date
If (as often happens, esp. with older texts) we only know City *or* Publisher, we get:
Publisher, Date (which is fine) or
City: Date (which isn't fine, and which should be "City, Date", so that I have to do a lot of tedious manual fiddling.
I wonder if there's any way round this -- short of EndNote (ick) style "forced separators".
The other punctuation problem is parentheses. I am parentheses' bitch, to be frank. But this isn't (yet) the place for that, unless anyone else is parentheses' bitch, too...