Displaying URL access using SBL

bhulme

I'm not quite sure why but when I cite websites, the access date does not appear in my footnote, nor in my bibliography. My citation style is SBL (Society for Biblical Literature), which is required to do so. Any ideas?

Thanks

adamsmith

SBL isn't super up to date, but are you sure they still require this? Chicago Manual has mostly stopped to ask for access dates, and SBL tends to follow CMoS.

bhulme

Just going on various style guides, it seems so ...

The main guide from SBL p. 63: http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/SBLHS09.pdf;

also

http://library.bethel.edu/class/tutorials/writ-cit/SBL_Citation.pdf

http://www.goshen.edu/library/sblstyle.php

etc.

adamsmith

that seems clear. It's really, really ugly as a style goes (really, they want people to tell their readers that websites don't have pages???) but that's what it says. I'll put it in when I get a chance.

bhulme

Thanks heaps! That's really helpful ... I bet you get to it before I get to finishing my thesis (sigh) ...

But in any case it will be helpful for the students where I work as a lecturer (tertiary Bible college, Australia) as they are required to use SBL (as an industry standard) and as we're promoting Zotero (why some still choose to do it by hand, I'll never know ...)

adamsmith

The style fix is up now. It will show up on the repository at www.zotero.org/styles within 30mins.
Any problems let us know.

bhulme

Fantastic - all up and working. Now my examiners will know that websites have 'no pages'!

Thanks again