Citing blogs in Turabian 8th ed.

dowens

Whoever put together the Turabian 8th ed. citation style, thank you so much!

Using this style I was trying to cite a blog post, and I noticed the comma after the title and before the date is not placed inside the quotation marks:

1. Justin Taylor, “An Interview with Kevin Vanhoozer”, May 11, 2009, accessed September 20, 2013, http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2009/05/11/interview-with-kevin-vanhoozer/.

When I change the item to a web page, the comma is correctly placed:

1. Justin Taylor, “An Interview with Kevin Vanhoozer,” last modified May 11, 2009, accessed September 20, 2013, http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2009/05/11/interview-with-kevin-vanhoozer/.

I rooted around in the CSL and for the life of me could not find out where to fix this. Any ideas?

adamsmith

thanks - I'll take a look over the weekend. Theoretically this shouldn't ever happen (commas in US-English styles should always be placed inside quotation marks), so this is likely the combination of poor coding in the style and a bug of the software that interprets it (the processor), so no wonder you couldn't find it.

dowens

Thanks so much.

adamsmith

this won't get fixed without a bug fix to
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/33495/citeprocbug-punctuation-in-quote-failing/#Item_1
usually that happens pretty quickly, though this is not a very high priority bug I'd assume.

But note that you should provide a blog name - something like "Justin Taylor: Between Two Worlds" in the data anyway, and that with a blog name added this is already cited correctly.

dowens

Thanks, adamsmith. You are right that I did not include the blog name, and it does cite correctly with that in there. Thanks for looking into this.

adamsmith

yeah, I won't for the time being fix this in the style for the situation of a missing blog title