Style Error: Pontifical Biblical Institute

erasmobarresi
Hi, I'd like to report an error in the Pontifical Biblical Institute style. It concerns book sections with a volume number and a page range. The footnote appears correctly, ending with "III, 187-251, here 187." In the bibliography, however, there is no comma between the volume number and the page range: "III 187-251."

I attach the relevant lines from p. 235 of "A Guide to Biblical Research" by Stanisław Bazyliński, published by Gregorian & Biblical Press, i.e., the Istitute's official publisher (ISBN 978-88-7653-645-8).

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Thanks in advance to anyone who will be willing to help!
  • damnation
    If no specific locator (page) is set, the footnote is also rendered like the bibliography, e.g.:
    M. Multhammer, “Anonymität und Autorschaft. Zur Literatur- und Rechtsgeschichte der Namenlosigkeit”, Die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik (ed. S. Pabst) (Berlin/Boston 2015) II 134-136
    Are you sure that's an error? I don't have access to the guide, so it's hard to check.
  • erasmobarresi
    For reference, this is the whole page:

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    The issue of page range + specific locator is addressed in the journal's instructions for contributors (page 3, numbers 6 and 7):

    https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/Instructions_Biblica.pdf

    Unfortunately, I was unable to locate an example with corresponds exactly to our case (volume + pages + page), and it would be hard to find one in the journal because most "collected works" are not multi-volume. However, from the way the guide is worded, the volume number should be consistently followed by a comma (unless, of course, it is directly followed by the final period, which is always the case for multi-volume one-author books in a bibliography, which already appear correctly).

    Thank you!
  • erasmobarresi
    Prof. Bazyliński, the author of the guide, has personally confirmed to me that the volume number should consistently be followed by a comma (when not followed by different punctuation for other reasons). Therefore, this applies to:
    - both footnotes and bibliography
    - both with and without a specific locator
    - both whole books and book sections

    He also told me that the combination of page range and specific locator in the Institute's journal is relatively a novelty (formerly, the page range was not required); perhaps this accounts for some of the "edit history" of the CSL code (and maybe for that inconsistency).

    Thank you!
  • damnation
    I've pushed an update. Should be available in an hour or so.
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