Help modifying ASA 6th ed to EUP House Style for Bibliography

Hi, I'm trying to modify ASA 6 to Edinburgh UP's author-date house style. In EUP's style, the Bibliography places the year in parentheses, and then uses commas instead of periods to divide the elements. The closest to EUP's author-date style is ASA 6, so far as I can see. I managed to use the style editor to place the year in parentheses, but need help replacing periods with commas. Below are examples of EUP bibliographical entries:

Full references to books
Bamgbose, Ayo (1991), Language and the Nation: The Language Question in Sub-Saharan Africa, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Woolf, V. (1997–9), Complete Works, ed. J. Hurst and D. Jones, 3 vols, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Full references to journal articles

Aldcroft, S. (1992), ‘As the sun rose’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November 1992, pp. 17–23.

Marcus, T. (1998), ‘Short story’, Journal of Storytelling, 5: 2, 23–7. [or whatever format you choose for giving volume, issue and page numbers]

Full references to book articles

Smith, C. Ann (1991), ‘Preserving food to preserve life’, in A. Wilson (ed.), Waste Not Want Not, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 5–33.

Woolf, V. (1999), ‘To the beach’, in V. Woolf, Complete Works, ed. J. Hurst and D. Jones, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pp. 9–14.

Any help would be most appreciated!
  • Hi, when I do not know, what is necessary to change, then I use small trick. You need change "." to "," then add "qq" to "." ("." will changed to ".qq") and I try the behaviour of this change.
  • n most cases you need change suffix="." to suffix=","
  • Can you list your style code to https://hastebin.com or similar and give a link here?
  • Hi LiborA and bwiernik, thank you for replying! I pasted the code to hastebin -- here is the url: https://hastebin.com/jozeciwesi.xml I hope I have done that correctly!

    Thanks for any help you can give me!

    Charles
  • Several places in your style, you have delimiter=". " or prefix=". " (e.g., line 222). Change those to use ", " instead.
  • Hi bweirnik, I did a searched for both of those (delimiter and prefix) and replaced them with a comma. I think cut and pasted the code from Notepad, put it in the style editor, clicked refresh and also did a Save As. But it's not working! Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
  • Can you export an item that isn’t working for you to CSL-JSON and post the output to hastebin, as well as your current style?
  • Hi, bwiernik, I went and searched for all the suffix=". " and changed it to ", " but now there is a comma at the end of each bibliographic entry!

    https://hastebin.com/kogeyepevo.xml
  • Most sure if that's just for me or everyone, but the file seems empty.

    Anyway, usually that dot at the end is set on the line starting with layout within the "bibliography" block at the bottom. There should be a suffix you need to change back to just a dot.
  • Hi all, how about this: https://hastebin.com/quboxakoye.xml

    I'm still encountering difficulties -- no doubt from not understanding the code and just replacing all the suffixes and prefixes from ". " to ", " -- here's the problem I'm having now with journal articles in the bibliographic results:

    Apperley, Thomas, and Jussi Parikka (2018), ‘Platform Studies’ Epistemic Threshold’, Games and Culture 13(4):349–69,.
    [comma and period at the end of entry]
  • It's still empty. Did you copy your code and save it?

    Also, my solution I mentioned should work. Did you find what I suggested?
  • Hi damnation, I noticed that -- I went back to hastebin to redo it, and everytime I clicked on the save icon, the site gave me an error message. Too many issues...

    I just ended up doing a find-and-replace deal in word to manually fix all the stuff and make it conform to the peculiarities of EUP house style. sigh. turned out to be faster.
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