<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1251"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Ross,<div><br></div><div>Many thanks for your reply. My response is below.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2014, at 10:54 PM, Ross Moore <<a href="mailto:ross.moore@mq.edu.au">ross.moore@mq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Hello Toke,<br><br>On 02/03/2014, at 12:56, Toke Knudsen <<a href="mailto:toke_knudsen@mac.com">toke_knudsen@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br><br>I’m finalizing a book manuscript, but have run into some issues with citations. <br><br>First of all, I’m using chicago.sty (\usepackage{chicago}) to get the citations like I want them. In my .bib file, I have the following entry (and a few more like that):<br><br>@BOOK{pingree:cess,<br>AUTHOR = "Pingree, David",<br>TITLE = "Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit",<br>YEAR = "1970--94",<br></blockquote><br>Very interesting problem.<br><br>Try <br> YEAR = "{1970--94}",<br>or<br> YEAR = "19{70--94}{}",<br><br>I've not tried this.<br>It is just an idea to overcome the 4 digit restriction.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, neither works. It produces the following:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Pingree 94, A.2.107–110, A.3.28, A.4.75–76, A.5.74–75</div></div><div><br></div><div>In other words, the year is still ’94,’ but now there’s extra space between ‘Pingree’ and ’94.'</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">PUBLISHER = "American Philosophical Society",<br><blockquote type="cite">ADDRESS = "Philadelphia",<br>NOTE = "Series A, volumes 1--5."<br>}<br><br>As you can see, the work was published in the period 1970 to 1994, over multiple years; this is causing problems when I use the \cite command.<br><br>For example, at one place in the text, I cite the work as follows:<br><br>\cite[A.2.107--110, A.3.28, A.4.75--76, A.5.74--75]{pingree:cess}<br><br>I’d like for this to appear as follows in the text: "Pingree 1970–94, A.2.107–110, A.3.28, A.4.75–76, A.5.74–75”; but instead I get the the following:<br><br>Pingree 94, A.2.107–110, A.3.28, A.4.75–76, A.5.74–75<br><br>Apparently only four digits from the YEAR entry is cited, so with the two dashes, I only get the last two digits—94. I don’t how to change this, so I’m asking if any of you would be able to help me. How can I get the citation to print “1970–94” for the year?<br><br>With all best wishes,<br>Toke<br></blockquote><br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br> Ross</div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>All best wishes,</div><div>Toke</div></body></html>