Month, day and date formatting in bibliography references #2027
Labels
bug
Software bug issue
modules:packages
Issue relates to core or 3rd party packages
packages:bibliography
As of today, the bibtex package does it wrong
day
although it shall be used when available for some formats (typically, journal articles)month
is output as set in the.bib
file, but it should be replaced by a true month name (abbreviated or not depending on the citation style, Chicago if I read it correctly recommends the full month name). The problem is, BibTeX has a loose definition formonth
, which can be a number (e.g."3"
) or a full string (e.g."March"
) or a "standard" 3-letter code (="mar"
); the recommendation is to use the latter.1Moreover, the date shall likely be formatted according to language-specific rules.2
Example:
@article{..., day= {14}, month = {apr}, year = {2024} ...}
apr, 2024.
April 14, 2024
in English Chicago citation style14 août 2024
in a French document3 -- however formatted, certainly not "apr" or "April" ;)Footnotes
Some references for
month
in BibTeX format:- https://www.bibtex.com/f/month-field/
- Q13 in https://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/CTAN/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/btxFAQ.pdf
- p. 10 in https://ctan.mines-albi.fr/biblio/bibtex/base/btxdoc.pdf ↩
Note that babel for LaTeX has tables of month names and date rules for all supported languages... But it seems that language support for bibliographies comes with babelbib which also has month name translations. I'm a bit lost here, regarding how it works in the LaTeX world... ↩
At least according to some online citation tools I tried. I haven't looked deeply into CSL examples... ↩
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: