Henning's suggestion for abbreviations should work fin= e for that issue. I could simply use the shorthand in the "series"= ; and "journal" fields and set up the appropriate \abbreviation c= alls in the document or environment.

As for the larger issue of bibl= iographies, I've started working on publ-imp-sbl.lua and publ-imp-sbl.m= kvi files. I knew I would need this for my own project soon, and I felt it = would be useful to myself and the ConTeXt community if I could at least get= a rudimentary version working. I'm presently using the reference for e= xamples from the SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd edition, available at=C2= =A0https://github.com/dcpurton/biblatex-sbl/blob/m= aster/test/biblatex-sbl-examples.ref.txt.

Like you s= ay, some parts are tricky. SBL uses "entry"-style citations by de= fault and doesn't seem to make use of other common alternatives (such a= s "authoryear"). I can think of some existing alternatives that m= ight get used in specific cases (e.g., "author", "title"= ;), but the recommended=C2=A0shorthand has the form "shortauthor, shor= ttitle" (i.e., the last name(s) of the author(s) only, followed by a c= omma and a shortened form of the title as specified in the "shorttitle= " field). I could make this the sbl style's implementation of the = "short" alternative, since the LaTeX-style bracketed number refer= ences are foreign to SBL style anyway, but if would be preferable just to i= ntroduce another alternative (something like "authortitle"), then= I could also try to do that.

For my immediate purposes, I won't= need much more than the=C2=A0@book, @article, @inbook, and=C2=A0@incollect= ion=C2=A0entries, so my focus will be on getting those right, but if anyone= is interested in helping, I'll gladly take help. (But it would probabl= y be better to discuss the details in a separate e-mail thread.)

Joey

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:12 AM Denis Maier via ntg= -context <ntg-context@ntg.nl&g= t; wrote:

> -----Urspr=C3=BCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ntg-context <ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl> Im Auftrag von Henning > Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
> Gesendet: Samstag, 7. August 2021 22:40
> An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
> Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Short forms and abbreviations in bibliograp= hy
>
>
>
> > Am 07.08.2021 um 21:53 schrieb Joey McCollum via ntg-context <= ntg-
> context@ntg.nl= >:
> >
> > A separate list of abbreviations would then list "LSAWS"= ; alongside "Linguistic
> Studies in Ancient West Semitic" (and likewise for other journal/= series
> abbreviations).
>
> Regarding abbreviations have a look at
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/de= finesynonyms
>
> It should be as easy as
>
> \abbreviation{LSAWS}{Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic}
>
> The full name of \quote{LSAWS} is \infull{LSAWS}.
>
> \placelistofabbreviations
>
>
> I had a case where mostly abbreviations were used in the text but the = full name
> should appear in the index.
> I can provide the setup (including Lua functions), if it might help yo= u.
>
>
> Can=E2=80=99t help with bibliographies, sorry.

SBL is a tricky beast anyway. There were some discussions regarding impleme= nting Chicago Manual of Style a couple of weeks ago. Develelopments on that= front could also be useful for SBL. Don't know what came out of this t= hough.

Denis

>
> Hraban
> ________________________________________________________________
> ___________________
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry= to the Wiki!
>
> maillist : ntg= -context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listin= fo/ntg-context
> webpage=C2=A0 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.ne= t archive=C2=A0 :
> https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commi= ts/
> wiki=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0: http://contextgarden.net
> ________________________________________________________________
> ___________________
___________________________________________________________________________= ________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki!

maillist : ntg-cont= ext@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/nt= g-context
webpage=C2=A0 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net=
archive=C2=A0 : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-m= irror/commits/
wiki=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0: http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________= ________