Colon placed outside quotation marks

fluesprekker

I have a journal article title that ends in a colon:

F. Becker & S. Erlenkamp svarer:

Using Chicago 17th author-date in English yields the following correct result:

Becker, Frank, and Sonja Erlenkamp. 2008. “F. Becker & S. Erlenkamp svarer:” Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 128 (1): 69–70.

When changing to Chicago 17th author-date in Norwegian, the colon at the end of the title is moved outside of the quotation marks:


Becker, Frank, og Sonja Erlenkamp. 2008. «F. Becker & S. Erlenkamp svarer»: Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 128 (1): 69–70.


Why?

fluesprekker

Should I submit this to the CSL github?

adamsmith

It's an edge case of the punctuation-in-quotes property which is true in English and false in most other languages. I don't think this was ever tested with titles ending in colons (nor do I understand what a colon at the end of a title does?)

fluesprekker

Here's the PDF: https://tidsskriftet.no/sites/default/files/pdf2008--69-70.pdf

It's a response to the article immediately above; "Becker & Erlenkamp responds:", hence the colon in the title of the journal "article"

bwiernik

I would just remove the colon from the title. It’s just a typographic styling and not something inherent to the title (similar to how some journals separate title and subtitle with a new line instead of a colon).

adamsmith

Agree with bwiernik, but this is almost definitely a bug, thoughI'm not sure it'll get treated with much priority.

FWIW, if you look at citations, it gets referenced without the colon as often as with, including on the authors' own RG: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298118114_F_Becker_S_Erlenkamp_svarer