- The Chicago Manual of Style specifies American punctuation: periods and commas should precede closing quotation marks (§ 6.9).
- It also specifies that titles within book titles should be enclosed in double quotation marks (§ 14.102).
- Accordingly, some book titles will end in a closing double quotation mark.
Unfortunately, the biblatex-chicago
package (and maybe biblatex
) doesn't seem to have counted with the combination of rules 1 and 2 above. In the following minimal working example, the third citation results in a comma following the closing quotation mark, while the bibliography has a period following the closing quotation mark. Both should precede the closing quotation mark. How do I fix this?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{etex}
\usepackage{keyval}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage[style=american]{csquotes}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[notes]{biblatex-chicago}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\begin{filecontents}{book.bib}
@book{key1,
author = {Marty McFly},
title = {This Book Title Ends in \enquote{Quotation Marks}},
location = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
year = {1976}
}
@book{key2,
author = {John Updike},
title = {Some Title},
location = {Cambridge, MA},
publisher = {Harvard University Press},
year = {2002}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{book.bib}
\begin{document}
Here I cite a book whose title ends in a closing quotation mark\autocite[55]{key1}.
I follow this up with an unrelated citation\autocite[xi]{key2}.
Here I cite the first work a second time, which results in a short reference\autocite[75]{key1}, which unfortunately misplaces the period.
\printbibliography
\end{document}
(source: langeslag.org)
(source: langeslag.org)
The problem also occurs where my postnote ends in a closing quotation mark:
\autocite[s.v. ``word'']{dictionary}
but there I can hack my way through by adding a period inside the postnote itself.
biblatex-chicago
output would be right.csquotes
syntax for the quotation marks?title = {This Book Title Ends in \mkbibquote{Quotation Marks}}
this will make your.bib
file somewhat dependent onbiblatex
though.