Plural Sensitive Format for ed./eds.

tx299

Hello everybody,
I am trying to create a citation for a Journal and for this it is necessary to have

John Smith (ed.) as one option but also John Smith and Johanne Smith (eds.).

I could not figure out how to have this done automatically and apprechiate any hints and support you might give. As far as I can tell the label function that normally enables this does not know ed. as a shorthand. I have the same issue with para./paras. and no./nos. so I am glad to hear of solutions for those as well.

Thank you in advance!
Best

adamsmith

Are you not working from an existing style? That's very strongly recommended, especially as you're getting started. This is implemented in virtually all styles on the repository. The basic logic is to add it as a label in the names node, so something like:
<names variable="author">
<name and="text" sort-separator=", " delimiter=", "/>
<label form="short" prefix=" (" suffix=")/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
</substitute>
</names>