the conditioned date display

LiborA
Hallo all,

I have this problem: for articles in ISO 690 (author-date method) I need display full date only if month or day is not empty.

Template:
Author, Year. Title. Journal. Publisher place: Publisher, Full date, Volume, Issue, Page. ISSN.

If in item date is filled in only year (Year = Full date) than Full date is not displayed.

Is any way to make condition for non empty month?
  • adamsmith
    no, you can't test for date parts.
    The best you can do is give the full date _without_ the year in the second date spot in the citation - obviously that would only appear when you have month and/or day.
  • LiborA
    edited May 14, 2013
    I am not sure what you mean "date spot" (sorry my english is no so good). Can you write an example? Thx.
  • adamsmith
    You can do:

    Author, 2002. Title. Journal. Publisher place: Publisher, May 13, Volume, Issue, Page. ISSN.

    But not:
    Author, 2002. Title. Journal. Publisher place: Publisher, May 13 2002, Volume, Issue, Page. ISSN.

    because that would also give you, when there is no month/date:
    Author, 2002. Title. Journal. Publisher place: Publisher, 2002, Volume, Issue, Page. ISSN.
    which I understand you don't want.
  • LiborA
    Yes you understand very well. Oh yes, now I understand you. In first time I think you have some recomentadion for Me how can solved my problem. If I understand, than there isn´t any solution in CSL of this examples? Your recomendation is implemented in ISO 690 (author-date, Czech) yet. But I´d like to make it better.
  • adamsmith
    correct, what you want/need isn't possible in CSL.

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