I recently entered a bibliographic record of Leibniz's Theodicy in Bookends, and was confronted with a difficulty that I managed to solve years ago in Endnote. Briefly, I want the "Year" field to include not only the particular edition I'm using, which is 1985, but also the date that the work originally appeared, which is 1710. In Endnote, I was able to work this out so that, in the formatted bibliographic entry, the dates would appear: (1710) 1985.
I'm sure there's a way to do this in Bookends, but it's eluded me thus far. Can someone at least point me in the right direction?
The easiest would be to turn off "use year-only for date" in the format you are using. Then you can have anything in the date field you want. Of course, if you have entries with months or days in the date field, they would show up to.
