Changing appearance of a journal citation

aegirorn · September 22, 2019

I need to change journal citations. Currently what I have is this:

Willis Jenkins, ‘After Lynn White: Religious Ethics and Environmental Problems’, Journal of Religious Ethics 37, no. 2/2009, p. 285

What I need is this:

Willis Jenkins, ‘After Lynn White: Religious Ethics and Environmental Problems’, Journal of Religious Ethics 37: 2/2009, p. 285

How can I do that?

bwiernik · September 22, 2019

What style are you using and what Journal/publisher is this for?

aegirorn · September 23, 2019

I am building a custom style on Chicago.

Actually I think I found a solution that works where I changed:


     <if type="article-journal">
        <group delimiter=", ">
          <text macro="collection-title-journal"/>
          <number variable="volume"/>
          <group delimiter=" ">
            <text term="issue" form="short"/>
            <number variable="issue"/>
          </group>
        </group>
      </if>

to


    <if type="article-journal">
        <group delimiter=":">
          <text macro="collection-title-journal"/>
          <number variable="volume"/>
          <group delimiter=" ">									 
            <number variable="issue"/>
          </group>
        </group>
      </if>

It looks like this solves my issue exactly the way I need.

adamsmith · September 23, 2019

what you have looks wrong to me, though:
a) most critically, the group delimiter would introduce two colons, both after collection-title-journal and after volume and
b) you never need a group with only one item in it, so you can just remove the group around the issue variable.

It's the right place in the code, though, so with a bit more tweaking you should be there.

aegirorn · September 23, 2019

Thanks a lot. I am totally new to this and just experimenting, trying to get results that I want. It is not easy to me to understand this structure well ;-)