Upgrade StorageComma, period inside closing quotation mark in SBLHS
In the Society of Biblical Literature Handbook of Style (2nd ed) style (latest release: 24 December 2016), journal articles are output with the full reference the first time they occur, and with only the author name and a shortened title thereafter. This creates a difficulty in that, when no page number is supplied, a comma or period following the article reference is placed after the closing double quotation mark rather than inside it (per CMS 16th ed. conventions).
Thus, an initial reference to
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Thus, an initial reference to
Would subsequently appear asSteve Delamarter and Daniel L. Brunner, “Theological Education and Hybrid Models of Distance Learning,” Theological Education 40.2 (2005): 145-161.
Rather than asDelamarter and Brunner, “Theological Education and Hybrid Models”.
It seems this issue might be similar to this one already noted for MLA. Would it be possible for the style to be tweaked so that commas and periods come inside these closing quotation marks (at least for American locales)?Delamarter and Brunner, “Theological Education and Hybrid Models.”
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This being said, on further inspection, it looks like I stated the original issue imprecisely. When a no-page-number citation occurs either in a note by itself or at the end of a long content note, the period is placed in the appropriate place. Thus: But, when the citation occurs at the beginning or in the middle of a content note, the default is for a semicolon to be added after the citation (if there's a latter citation in the note), but sometimes a comma or period is needed instead (e.g., to add further comments after the citation, whether or not another citation follows in the note). The semicolon (if added automatically) is successfully eliminated by adding a comma or period as the first character in the suffix field. But, the comma or period (for standard American style) needs to be presented before the closing quotation mark after the title, rather than after it, as would be the case with a semicolon. Thus: In Zotero, I've added in the suffix field. But, it would probably be helpful to have some if condition such that if the first character in the suffix field is a period or comma what Zotero outputs is ." or ," rather than ". or ", followed by the remainder of the suffix field.
You could try the 5.0 Beta, which has the newer processor, or just wait for 5.0 to be released, which it will be very soon. If you do try it, you can switch back to the main version when 5.0 is released.
But I haven't actually checked on your updated issue -- I just checked simple short titles -- so it's possible that this is broken across processor versions.