Upgrade StorageStyle error: MHRA
When citing edited volumes, and films, in footnotes, the MHRA guide calls for moving the title to the front, followed by the editor, or director. (In the bibliography, however, the editor continues to appear before the title, as does, I expect, the director [though no examples for films in bibliographies are given].)
Examples, from http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/StyleGuideV3_1.pdf:
Approaches to Teaching Voltaire’s ‘Candide’, ed. by R. Waldinger (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1987), pp. 3, 10, 27.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. by Joseph R. Strayer and others, 13 vols (New York: Scribner, 1982–89), vi (1985), 26.
Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson, 2nd edn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 194–97.
Boswell: The English Experiment 1785–1789, ed. by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw Hill, 1986), pp. 333–37.
The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. by Ronald B. McKerrow, 2nd edn, rev. by F. P. Wilson, 5 vols (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), iii, 94–98 (pp. 95–96).
Ballads of Love and Betrayal, Joglaresa, dir. by Belinda Sykes (Village Life, 01013VL, 2001).
The Grapes of Wrath, dir. by John Ford (20th Century Fox, 1940).
Examples, from http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/StyleGuideV3_1.pdf:
Approaches to Teaching Voltaire’s ‘Candide’, ed. by R. Waldinger (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1987), pp. 3, 10, 27.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. by Joseph R. Strayer and others, 13 vols (New York: Scribner, 1982–89), vi (1985), 26.
Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson, 2nd edn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 194–97.
Boswell: The English Experiment 1785–1789, ed. by Irma S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle, The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell (London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw Hill, 1986), pp. 333–37.
The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. by Ronald B. McKerrow, 2nd edn, rev. by F. P. Wilson, 5 vols (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), iii, 94–98 (pp. 95–96).
Ballads of Love and Betrayal, Joglaresa, dir. by Belinda Sykes (Village Life, 01013VL, 2001).
The Grapes of Wrath, dir. by John Ford (20th Century Fox, 1940).
(1) "Volume" is not rendered. It should appear after the publication details, separated by ", ", in small capital roman numerals (see http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/StyleGuideV3_1.pdf, p. 63).
(According to the style guide, this may be "followed where necessary by the title and editor of the volume (if any) and by the year of publication in parentheses". To do this properly, we'd need new variables, not only volume-title, but also volume-editor, and volume-date.)
(2) "container-title" is rendered in sentence case, should be in title case (see ibid., p. 64).
Volume is rendered as you specify & works for me in Zotero:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/modern-humanities-research-association.csl#L244
(called in both citation and bibliography.
@dunning - sorry, I'm not following, we title case all container-titles in Chicago, no?
Volume: It is rendered if it's numerical. I was trying "VI" or "VI (1865)". Any chance you could add a fallback so volume is rendered as a literal string if it's non-numerical?
@dunning - I believe "5th ser." should be in collection-title anyway. If so, it seems to work nicely.
(1) article-journal should render month and issue. Examples from the MHRA guide, p. 68:(2) "vols" should not be followed by a full stop (p. 61).
(3) years should be collapsed: not "1987–1988" but "1987–88" (p. 66). (If that's possible, I've only seen this in CSL for page numbers so far.)
(4) film titles should appear in italics, no quotes (p. 75).
BTW, the following patch, adding "director", works well with pandoc, and I don't expect it to break anything on the Zotero side, so if you wish, use it:
--- modern-humanities-research-association.csl 2014-04-16 14:56:00.000000000 +0100+++ modern-humanities-research-association-modif.csl 2014-07-13 13:51:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
<substitute>
<names variable="editor"/>
<names variable="translator"/>
+ <names variable="director"/>
<text macro="title-note"/>
</substitute>
</names>
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@
</if>
</choose>
</group>
- <names variable="editor translator" delimiter=", ">
+ <names variable="editor translator director" delimiter=", ">
<label form="verb-short" text-case="lowercase" suffix=" "/>
<name and="text" delimiter=", "/>
</names>
I had noticed that about the rendering of journal articles awhile back: the issue is that the guide specifies this information shouldn't be included if journal page numbering is continuous between issues, which is 99 per cent of academic journals. Another very annoying rule, as I don't know how one would ever implement it. (Add a continuous-volume-pagination property to the entries for articles which is on by default?)
Zotero still doesn't support date ranges, of course, but I suppose that it's possible to get them with Pandoc. Chicago requires the same thing.
Thanks for working on these. I will be writing another article that requires MHRA in the near future, and will keep a lookout for more issues.
Short of that, I maintain that in the absence of continuous volume pagination, i.e., when information on issue and/or month become essential for identifying a source, rendering these variables should be possible with the style files from the repository without users having to jump through hoops (i.e., individually patching their style files). If you do not want issue or month to appear for a particular entry, you have to clean up your data of course, but I think that's a small price to pay.
chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl renders issue and month, too, so I don't quite see why the MHRA styles shouldn't.
On date ranges: pandoc supports these. What I was wondering about is whether the abbreviation from "1987–1988" to "1987–88", as described for page ranges in http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#appendix-v-page-range-formats, is possible for year ranges, too.
As to date formats, I do not see any option that would cause date ranges to be abbreviated. I wonder, however, if there would be any drawbacks to simply expanding the scope of the page number formats to cover all numbers. In addition to dates, there must be some situations in which it could apply to the volume and issue numbers, which are occasionally a range.
I checked in the official style guide, and found that it still requires footnotes to be cited as follows (same as the final example in the original post):
The Grapes of Wrath, dir. by John Ford (20th Century Fox, 1940).
Here is the link to the latest version of the style guide, where examples can be found on page 75 (which is the 84th page of the PDF document):
http://www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/MHRA-Style-Guide-3rd-Edn.pdf
I attempted to work out how to fix this using the CSL Visual Editor, but it was a bit beyond me. Could somebody who is more proficient with code have a go at fixing this?
Many thanks!