Sonny Software

I have to deal with different formats for bibliographic refs and would like BE to handle one more thing, if possible.

When a publication has two or more place names (normally it comes along with two or more publishers), in some formats we separate each publisher of place name with '–' (like 'Berlin - Wien'), whereas in other formats we are requested to separate them with '/' (like 'Berlin / Wien').

Is there a way to make BE do this changing for me? I cannot figure out how, but maybe others can...

Thank you

Hi,

The only way I can think of isn't particularly appealing -- store both locations in different fields, and design formats that place the separator between them. In reality, I think you'll have to edit the references (or the bibliography) to reflect these differences.

Jon
Sonny Software

I thought so. But it is not such a big deal to edit that manually with find/replace. Much 'cleaner' than having different fields for that (there are cases with more than two place names, and the same situation goes for publishers), especially considering that it happens with at most, say, 5% of the references.

Thank you, Jon

I also struggled with this for a while too. But then I decided to always only enter one place.

Giving out more than one city is basically a marketing strategy without any citation-related impact, so you can basically skip all but the first place, which should be the main seat of the publisher.

I am pretty sure that nobody will shed a tear over the loss of these additional cities in a bibliography…

Sounds fair enough. I will do it with new references, since editing the old ones would be a huge amount of work, not worth it.