More accurate citations on older products

Currently putting together a bibliography, which Logos is generally very useful for, but some products have very unhelpful citation information.

Eg: - Calvin, J., & Pringle, J. (2010). Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians (Vol. 1, p. 356). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
- Bunyan, J. (2006). A Case of Conscience Resolved (Women’s Prayer Meetings). (Vol. 2, p. 672). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
- Candlish, Robert Smith. Studies in Genesis. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997.

To get the proper date for Calvin doesn't require jumping through a huge amount of hoops - the correct dates and publisher (though no place) are listed on the product page.
But for Bunyan the product page isn't any help so I'm currently jumping round google books.

The policy seems to have changed with more recent works (eg classic commentaries) but it would be nice if other resources were updated. I'm sure Calvin and Bunyan would be up there with the most frequently cited works!

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Stephen Steele

Also - is it possible to customise the citation styles? Seems like it should be pretty easy to do, but the option doesn't seem to be there? None of the default ones really do what I need.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/578983#Comment_578983

Also - is it possible to customise the citation styles? Seems like it should be pretty easy to do, but the option doesn't seem to be there? None of the default ones really do what I need.

No, there isn't currently a way to do that, but there's a request on UserVoice for custom formattable citation styles. Go place your votes on it; it hasn't gotten much visibility yet, but it should.

http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-5/suggestions/1012681-ability-to-format-citations

Daniel Lee

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/578986#Comment_578986

Also - is it possible to customise the citation styles? Seems like it should be pretty easy to do, but the option doesn't seem to be there? None of the default ones really do what I need.

No, there isn't currently a way to do that, but there's a request on UserVoice for custom formattable citation styles. Go place your votes on it; it hasn't gotten much visibility yet, but it should.

http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-5/suggestions/1012681-ability-to-format-citations

Use the Bibliography tool, export to Zotero, then pick your citation style.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/579106#Comment_579106

Use the Bibliography tool, export to Zotero, then pick your citation style.

That's great if all you want is a Bibliography, but if you want to get a properly formatted citation for a quote from one of your resources that you're copying and pasting into a Word document, then using the Zotero method would require a lot of manual work. It would be nice if we could have better control over the footnote that gets automatically generated by Logos when you copy/paste to Word with Copy Citations set to Yes.

The default styles available are sufficient for most people's needs, but I can see there might be people who would want to do their own custom styles.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/579114#Comment_579114

Bob Pritchett">
A future release (some months out) will feature a new citation framework that will offer a huge number of styles. (Hopefully, all those you can use in Zotero.)

Sorry, can't give you a date yet!

Of course the "some months" have already become more than two years, so I wouldn't hold my breath...

abondservant

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/579180#Comment_579180

Turabian is sufficient for my needs, and MLA before that. I can say that this feature is an amazing time saver for the student, and so I could see wanting/needing to ensure that the format required by your institution is available. If its for your own personal study, just pick one, and don't worry about it.