Opened 10 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#540 closed defect (fixed)

Edition field not used in citations

Reported by: dstillman Owned by: simon
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.0 RC 4
Component: export Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:

Description

The edition field appears not to be used in citation generation.

According to http://www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm, it should look something like this for APA:

Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

I imagine most people are getting around this by entering the edition in the Title field, but if we have an Edition field, we should use it. Now, ideally it would be smart enough to understand "3", "3rd", "3rd ed", or "3rd ed." in the edition field (the GMU catalog MARC record has "4th ed" in the edition field, no period), but there's also the problem of things like "Paperback Edition" and the like. So, maybe parse if possible and otherwise just treat it as a string and stick it in the parentheses?

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by simon

  • Milestone changed from 1.0 Beta 4 to 1.0 RC 1

this requires CSL modification and will be pushed to RC1

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by codec

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [2034]) fixes #540 - Edition field not used in citations
Added the number directive and the datatype="number" support in <if>
Need to fix up the CSL files now - a job for tomorrow!

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