Sonny Software

I'm using SBL Handbook of Style. One of its idiosyncrasies is that it requires a colon for the first appearance of the journal article. For example:

Danny Zacharias, "Journal article Title," JBL 100 (2006): 19.

I'm able to get BE to produce the following:

Danny Zacharias, "Journal article Title," JBL 100 (2006):, 19.

The colon+comma is the issue I'm trying to address. Can you advise?

I see in the User Guide the following:
"Finally, even with these tools it is sometimes impossible to avoid inappropriate punctuation combinations when one or more fields are missing. To deal with these situations, Bookends post-processes formatted references to eliminate unwanted characters. Here are some combinations that Bookends handles:" This is followed by a table that indicates that :, is replaced by BE's post-processing with simply colon ":".

I'll need to see more. Please export the reference in question and send it to me (support@sonnysoftware.com). And send the SBL format you are using, in case it's not identical to the one I have.

Jon
Sonny Software

How was this situation resolved? I'm having the same issue as the OP.

If you're using Cited Pages what is output before the page numbers is set in the format definition (e.g., could be a colon + space). You can change it on an ad hoc basis by putting whatever you want instead in between \ characters. Like this, to replace the colon with a comma.

{temp cite@\, \19}

Jon
Sonny Software