Fine, I’ll try to clarify a bit more:
To represent book chapters in multivolume monographs as required by
CMoS and others, four different kinds of title variables are needed:
title, (the proposed) volume-title, container-title, and
collection-title.
In the following example,
Diener, Ed.
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Nick Bart nickbart1...@gmail.com wrote:
And, yes, in principle, for a journal article the existing three kinds
of title variables could also be repurposed somehow: title for the
title of the article, container-title for the title of the special
issue, and
is there any downside to having two variables? In terms of clarity, I think
Rintze is right that issue-title for journals and volume-title for books
makes more sense. The main reason we want to keep variables limited is so
that code is more modular, but issue titles and volume titles - while