Collapse Year-Suffix in Chicago Manual of Style
Hello,
My office uses the Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition (author-date) style for citations and bibliographies. A citation with multiple sources looks like this:
(Achazi et al. 1995; ACHP 1966; ADEC 1999a; ADEC 1999b; ADEC 1999c; ADEC 2002a; ADEC 2002b; ANSI 2003a; ANSI 2003b)
We would like the citation to have collapsed authors and suffixes and commas within groups:
(Achazi et al. 1995; ACHP 1966; ADEC 1999a, b, c, 2002a, b; ANSI 2003a, b)
So, I inserted collapse="year-suffix" and cite-group-delimiter=", " into the <citation …> line in the Standalone style editor. Now, the citation looks like this:
(Achazi et al. 1995; ACHP 1966; ADEC 1999a, [b], [c], [a] 2002, [b]; ANSI 2003a, [b])
I got the commas to work but there are brackets enclosing the suffixes and the [a] appears before 2002 for ADEC.
Could someone help, please?
My office uses the Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition (author-date) style for citations and bibliographies. A citation with multiple sources looks like this:
(Achazi et al. 1995; ACHP 1966; ADEC 1999a; ADEC 1999b; ADEC 1999c; ADEC 2002a; ADEC 2002b; ANSI 2003a; ANSI 2003b)
We would like the citation to have collapsed authors and suffixes and commas within groups:
(Achazi et al. 1995; ACHP 1966; ADEC 1999a, b, c, 2002a, b; ANSI 2003a, b)
So, I inserted collapse="year-suffix" and cite-group-delimiter=", " into the <citation …> line in the Standalone style editor. Now, the citation looks like this:
(Achazi et al. 1995; ACHP 1966; ADEC 1999a, [b], [c], [a] 2002, [b]; ANSI 2003a, [b])
I got the commas to work but there are brackets enclosing the suffixes and the [a] appears before 2002 for ADEC.
Could someone help, please?
Something isn't working correctly (and I can reproduce this, even with just adding collapse="year" to the style).
<macro name="date-in-text">
<choose>
<if variable="issued">
<group delimiter=" ">
<!-- date variable="original-date"
form="text" date-parts="year"
prefix="[" suffix="]"/ -->
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</if>
<else-if variable="accessed">
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</else-if>
<else-if variable="status">
<text variable="status"/>
</else-if>
<else>
<text term="no date" form="short"/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
The affixes on that node are being applied to the issued date that follows it, which is very wrong and needs to be fixed.
The year-suffix can be expressed in two ways in CSL: it can occur implicitly (as in this style); or it can be set explicitly with a <text variable="year-suffix"/> node in the citation and in the bibliography. Some quick testing shows that the latter method actually doesn't work with collapse="year-suffix", so use the fix above in the short term, and we’ll try to get a complete solution to these issues out soon.
However ... with collapse="year-suffix" in this style, and with an item that has a value for original-date, I'm not sure what should happen with collapsing. On the current logic, you would get something like this ...
Aalto 2015,[1990]; Bartleby 2010
... which is unlikely to lead the reader to the second Aalto reference—and if that quandary leads to confirming the removal of the original-date element from the in-text cite, the problem will be “solved,” of course.
(Piliavin and Briar 1964a, b 1964) now for
Piliavin, Irving, and Scott Briar. 1964a. “Police Encounters With Juveniles.” American Journal of Sociology 70 (2): 206–14.
———. 1964b. “Police Encounters With Juveniles.” American Journal of Sociology 70 (2): 206–14.
with Chicago (author-date) with collapse="year" added. Should be
(Piliavin and Briar 1964a, 1964b)
collapse="year-suffix" works correctly, though.