dcpurton
commented
3 years ago :) I can not say if they have made a mistake in their blog post, but they are consistent with their Pages … in use in the bibliography (See §6.2.12, §6.2.13, §6.2.22, §6.2.23, §6.3.3, etc.). They did this in both the first and second edition of their handbook. As far as I know CMS has never done this, so I can only assume that it's a deliberate decision. And I have not seen any example on their blog on in the handbook which does it like CMS. It's possible they refer to CMS in the blog post in reference to the note format, rather than the bibliography format.
SBL definitely doesn't always follow CMS and they seem to feel free to do their own thing. You could write to them I guess and ask for clarification.
My goal isn't to make an infinitely flexible style for biblatex-sbl, but implement what SBL wants as best I can.
I suggest you ask a question on tex.stackexchange.com about modifying biblatex-sbl to do what you want. I'll take a look in that context if moewe doesn't get to it first!
It would probably need the incollection driver to be changed I think. Note that this would have quite far reaching consequences, since incollection is used for various other in* entry types.
folofjc
I do not get why SBL chose to do section 6.2.12 like they do for bibliographic entries. Based upon the blog post here, they reference CMS section 14.111 and 14.112. (I think there is a mistake in the blog post - SBLHS2 section 6.2.12 is not about multivolume works, but edited works. The examples in the blog post show that they mean edited works.) I am not sure what version of CMS they are referring to, but in CMS 17 (the only one I have) I think the sections are 14.106 and 14.107. I am only talking about edited works (which is what SBLHS2 6.2.12 is about), so that is CMS17 14.107. Here is what that looks like:
As you can see, this does not match SBLHS2. The pages come after the title of the volume, not before. I have no idea why SBL did it the way they did it, while at the same time referring to CMS?! CMS does not specifically state that the pages have to come after (though the example implies it). However, here is what the 9th edition of Turabian (which follows CMS very closely) states:
The Bibliography entries match, and the text is explicit.
I would like to implement this for
incollectiontypes inbiblatex-sbl. I looked at trying to update thechapter+pagesinbibmacro inbiblatex-sbl.def(based upon theincollectionbibliography driver insbl.bbx). It looks like the pages would need to be added to theshortseries+numbermacro? It should go before the publication data, but I am not sure if it should go beforenote.Any suggesions, @dcpurton? Thanks for all your help!