inserting page numbers

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jarod347
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inserting page numbers

Post by jarod347 »

Hi All,

I have tried to find the answer to this question with no luck.

For some of my references I need to have the page number preceded by a colon, not a comma. I normally insert my reference (using bookends) and get something like:

Shelom Morag, "Qumran Hebrew," VT 38 (19998): 148-157.

So, by default, my style puts in a page range after a colon following the date. When I want to put a specific page I double click the reference and add @148 to the reference, which gives me:

Shelom Morag, "Qumran Hebrew," VT 38 (19998), 148.

So, either bookends or mellel is replacing the colon with a comma. What do I need to do to get the colon to stay put.

Here is my bookends style: a, "t," u4 v (d): p-.

Thanks!

Jarod
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Re: inserting page numbers

Post by nicka »

The following will change the punctuation for all citations with cited pages:

In Bookends, choose Biblio>Formats Manager...
Then choose the Citation Options tab.
Then the Common Settings sub tab.
Then edit the text labelled 'Before' under Cited Pages.

It probably has
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You need to change that to
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tineline
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Re: inserting page numbers

Post by tineline »

I have a slightly different version of this problem. I am using Chicago 16 B at the moment, for a specific mellel document. When I try to insert pages, they display in Mellel as "Hansen 2000124" (p124). My Formats manager in Bookends has got the : in the before range and nothing in the after range boxes. I cite pages using @.

Somehow, the only style that does not do this is my default style which I heavily modified from Harvard. That one behaves exactly as I want, but whenever I try to cite from any other system, I get the same problem presenting and end up editing in the final citation style instead of the temporary citation.

Any input would be very helpful - the beauty of using a ref manager is of course that this is all conforming to the output style.
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