Ignoring the English article (The, an, a) of titles in the alphabetization of works by same author

[mzumaeta]

I am wondering if there is a way to set up Bookends so that it ignores the article (without removing it) of titles written by a same author in the alphabetization, when producing the bibliography.

The output from Bookends right now is the following:

Bauckham, Richard. “For Whom Were Gospels Written?” In The Gospel for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audience, edited by Richard Bauckham, 9–48. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
———. “The Audience of the Fourth Gospel.” In Jesus in Johannine Tradition, edited by Robert T. Fortna and T. Thatcher, 101–11. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

What the SBL2 handbook requires is:

Bauckham, Richard. “The Audience of the Fourth Gospel.” In Jesus in Johannine Tradition, edited by Robert T. Fortna and T. Thatcher, 101–11. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001
———. “For Whom Were Gospels Written?” In The Gospel for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audience, edited by Richard Bauckham, 9–48. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[Jon]

I think this is what you want. In the format, tick the "Use Ignore List for " -> Title (the ignore list is in Settings, and contains The, a, and an).

Jon
Sonny Software

[mzumaeta]

John, you have created an amazing product. I knew there was an easy solution. Thank you very much!

[mzumaeta]

Jon, how about titles of the same author that are separated by comas? For example what Bookends is outputting is the following:

Sinclair, John. “Corpus Typology—A Framework for Classification.” In Studies in Anglistics,
edited by G. Melchers and B. Warren, 17–33. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1995.

———. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Describing English Language. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1991.

However, SBL2 requires that it be the reverse order:

Sinclair, John. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Describing English Language. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1991.

———. “Corpus Typology—A Framework for Classification.” In Studies in Anglistics,
edited by G. Melchers and B. Warren, 17–33. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1995.

Thank you in advance!

Moises

[Jon]

Have you set the sort to Author, Year, Title in the format? Or it is only Author, Title?

Jon
Sonny Software

[mzumaeta]

It is set to Author, Year, Title.

[Jon]

Check the date field in those two references. It should contain only the year, not other information such as month. If they only contain the year, please contact support@sonnysoftware.com

Jon
Sonny Software