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Handling of dates (MLA 8 style)

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:34 am
by joseph_anton
I am citing a number of electronic resources in an MLA 8 style document. It seems the current recommendation is to include an access date for the resource in the works cited. I've kept track of access dates as I was going along in standard American format, e.g. 02/08/2018. I now see that the MLA guidelines are for day / month / year, with the month abbreviated, e.g. 8 Feb. 2018.

I know this is something of a tall order, but is there any way of telling Bookends to pass the date to the works cited in this way?

Re: Handling of dates (MLA 8 style)

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:25 am
by Jon
I'm afraid not. Bookends dates are alphanumeric text, not objects, and therefore can't be manipulated by Bookends (other than find and replace).

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Handling of dates (MLA 8 style)

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:29 am
by joseph_anton
I figured as much, but thought it was worth asking just in case. Thanks.