Style - Problem with 'subsequent-author-substitute'

François Maurice

Hi,

I build a style based on "Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (note)".

I'm almost done. I use 'subsequent-author-substitute = "—," ' to avoid repeating the name of the author The delimiter I use is the comma. I would like to have no comma after the dash. Here is an example:

Bunge M., 2006, Chasing Reality : Strife over Realism, Toronto, University of Toronto Press.
—, 2012, « The Correspondence Theory of Truth », Semiotica, no 188: 65–75.

I tried several things, but without success. It seems to be "hard coded", i.e. it is not possible to treat the dash separately from the contributors.

Is there a way to not displaying the comma after the dash ?

Thanks,

Françcois

adamsmith

I don't think so, no. Since the author is getting substituted, if you want a comma after the author, you'll get one after the substitute. (FWIW, it's standard to keep the punctuation after authors in citation styles using substitutes)

fbennett

It's the delimiter for the name, there isn't any way of suppressing it that I know of. Your best bet would probably be to just do a find and replace after finalizing the bibliography.

François Maurice

OK thanks to both of you.

François