Question about date field: range of years

[rvosters]

Just a quick question.

Is there a way to display a range of years for the date field in author-date references (e.g. 'De Foere 1823-1829'), as well in the bibliography (e.g. 'De Foere, L. 1823-1829')? So, rather than entering each volume as a separate entry, just keep one entry for the entire collection, and refer to those multiple years in the text as well? Currently, BE keeps just extracting the first 4-digit year from the date field, and thus only displays 'De Foere 1823', ignoring the rest.

Is there a way to make this work? Specifically, I was thinking of something like a comma or another operator to enter in the date field, giving BE instructions to display the content of the field exactly as they have been entered. However, I cannot seem to find any such command, and I'm not sure if there is one.

Any suggestions?

I looked through the user guide, but can't seem to find a solution. Maybe there is one -- then I'd appreciate your tips. If there is no solution, maybe this is something to consider for a future update. It would be a really useful feature as far as I'm concerned. (I use it a lot to refer to entire periodicals/journals/etc.).

[Jon]

HI,

For author-date references, no. it's one year only. But for custom citation formats it's possible. Uncheck the box "year-only for date" in the format you are using and Bookends will output whatever is in the date field (it won't try to parse it to just one year).

Jon
Sonny Software