BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Original Publication Date and Republication Date

[misha]

I'm trying to get the publication years (i.e., original publication date and republication date) to be formatted like the following (except for the placement of the period--the following is what natbib produces with the entry in the "code" section) with natbib (I can make it work with, say, siam, but I want the parenthetical and textual citations that natbib offers).

Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Benzinger Brothers, 1947. [1274] Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province.

The problem I'm encountering is with the year in brackets and the placement of the period. I think that the period ought to go after the original publication date (in brackets). Below is the bibliography item I used to get the above format with natbib.

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@book{aquinas,
	author = "Saint Thomas Aquinas",
	title = "{Summa Theologica}",
	year = "1947",
	publisher = "Benzinger Brothers",
	note = {[1274] \textit{Translated by} Fathers of the English Dominican Province}}

Thank you for your time and help.

Misha

[frabjous]

Can you make it

year = "1974 [1247]",

in the bib file? Or does that mess up your internal citations?

[misha]

As suggested, I tried the following:

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@book{aquinas,
	author = "Saint Thomas Aquinas",
	title = "{Summa Theologica}",
	year = "1947 [1274]",
	publisher = "Benzinger Brothers",
	note = "\textit{Translated by} Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
}

However, this gets me the following bibliography listing:

]aquinas Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Benzinger Brothers, 1947 [1274]. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province.

Note the "]aquinas" (where "aquinas" is the key) at the beginning of the entry.

I then tried the following:

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@book{aquinas,
	author = "Saint Thomas Aquinas",
	title = "{Summa Theologica}",
	year = "{1947 [1274]}",
	publisher = "Benzinger Brothers",
	note = "\textit{Translated by} Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
}

This bib file entry (note the curly brackets around the year entry) yielded the following bibliography entry:

Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Benzinger Brothers, 1947 [1274]. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province.

I thought that I had tried this (and several other things), but I obviously didn't do something correctly (e.g., building the file more than once, or, re-building the bibtex file) the first time around. I'm using Kile, if that matters, and I'm clearly not an expert user.

Thanks for your help, frabjous.