Series Editor not showing up in SBL style

benson.goh

I have a need to show Series Editor. Here is a sample citation in SBL (2nd ed.) style

Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke, eds., The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting, vol. 1 of The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, ed. Bruce W. Winter (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), 25.

I tried calling out collection-editor but nothing happens.

adamsmith

Not sure what you mean by calling out collection-editor -- what exactly did you do? Modify the citation style? If so, how exactly (post a copy to gist.github.com


(I'm not sure, btw., this is actually a series editor. Multivolume works and series are not actually the same thing, so this might be something else that neither Zotero nor CSL has a space for at this time, but you should still be able to make collection-editor work for you if need be.)

benson.goh

Well, in this example, Bruce Winter is the editor of the first title and the series editor of the series (second title). I realize that series editor doesn't show up in notes or bibliography in this example. Then when I realized that if a work only has series editor and not author or editor at all, the series editor also does not show up at all!

So I started to study the csl website to find out how to make it work and found that "collection-editor" would include series editor. I tried to edit the style code but probably did not do it rightly so that the series editor will appear. So I am looking for the right way of getting a name entered as series editor to appear in notes and bibliography.

adamsmith

If you post what you edited to gist.github.com and link to it here, I can probably point you to what you need to do to get this working for your purposes.

It'll take me a while to get to this in the regular SBL style.

benson.goh

I can't get into anything meaningful in gist.gihub.com. I just see a lot of ads and links to ads... Can't get anywhere to post anything.

Can I post here the section of the script where I entered a line to activate collection-editor?

adamsmith

sorry, that's gist.github.com, keyboard failure there. (fixed it above, too) (forums aren't great to post code, so I'd rather avoid that).

benson.goh

ok. here it is
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/de80341a6bc31a6d0cf6

This is a section from bibliography.
I basically entered a line in bibliography that ensures I can see the author. Then when it works, I entered a similar line to show the collection-editor.

benson.goh

btw, I know the order is out of place for bibliography. but if this straightforward method does not work at all, then I don't see how it could when placed in a macro with conditions.

adamsmith

I'm surprised text variable="author" works, but that's a coincidence, not something that's supposed to work.

You need
<names variable="collection-editor"/>

or more typically

<names variable="collection-editor">
<name/>
<label form="short"/>
</names>

and then add the required styling for label and name. See various examples for this in the style itself or http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/latest/specification.html#names if you'd like technical documentation.

benson.goh

Thanks! I've got it working!