Editor label after year in the same parenthesis

gduffner · December 2, 2015

I’m building a style (derived from APA) that requires that editor/translator labels be Included in the issued year parenthesis after a comma:

Hancke, Bob / Rhodes, Martin / Thatcher, Mark (2007, eds.).

I had no luck with adding a cs:names element like so:


    <names variable="author">
      <label form="short" prefix=", " text-case="title"/>
      <substitute>
        <names variable="editor"/>
        <names variable="translator"/>
      </substitute>
    </names>

This would always print the author names and no labels at all.

I was more lucky with an if loop but that loop can not recognise if there are more than two editors so it always prints the singular form:


      <choose>
        <if variable="author" match="none">
          <if variable="editor">
            <text term="editor" form="short"/>
          </if>
          <else-if variable="translator">
            <text term="translator" form="short"/>
          </else-if>
        </if>    
      </choose>

adamsmith · December 2, 2015

yes, that's the best you can do. Which style requires that?

gduffner · December 3, 2015

It’s an in-house style of one of our university’s (WU Vienna’s) institutes, which is mandatory for all their students.

It’s not the first style where I see this requirement so I’d like to know how to request the format to be improved to allow for this kind of requirements?

adamsmith · December 3, 2015

we discuss such issues on the xbiblio mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel