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• Sorry, but if both publisher and library catalogues identify a publication as "18. Aufl.", you are required to cite it as "18. Aufl."; maybe, if that level of detail is essential, as "18., unveränderte Aufl." or similar. Still, whether a user decide…

  in German: is "edition" "Auflage" or is it "Ausgabe"? Comment by Barbara Kost February 19, 2014
• edition = "Ausgabe"? Most definitely not. Any numbered edition in German is invariably an "Auflage", without, literally, a single exception. Cf. any German style guide, e.g., "Duden. Wie verfasst man wissenschaftliche Arbeiten?: Ein Leitfaden f…

  in German: is "edition" "Auflage" or is it "Ausgabe"? Comment by Barbara Kost February 19, 2014
• If we see bibliographic information as some kind of Russian doll, it would seem a few "dolls" are missing: One between article and journal, for a special issue, with its individual title and editor(s), and one between book and series to describ…

  in Edited special issue of a journal Comment by Barbara Kost January 21, 2013
• I agree, "translated from X by Y" is not uncommon. It's explicitly recommended in the "Harvard" style described in http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/help/guidespublications/bib_cit/. Also, the Chicago Manual has one case where the orig…

  in How do I enter "Translated from" material? Comment by Barbara Kost January 17, 2013
• I’d need the "translated from" option, too. I see that CSL has the variables for original-date, original-publisher, original-publisher-place, original-title, even original-author, but not original-language. Any plans to add original-language to…

  in How do I enter "Translated from" material? Comment by Barbara Kost January 16, 2013