Rearranging and reformatting elements of a biblatex-chicago citation

Question

In my ongoing quest to destroy biblatex-chicago in response to editorial command--definitely going to look into building from a more flexible style for my future projects, if custom in-house publisher styles are going to be common--I need to rearrange two elements of @incollection entries.

Based on the MWE given below, the standard output in a footnote for such an entry is:

F. Lastname, “Longer Article Title,” in Collected Essays, ed. I. Editor (City, 1918), 207–225.

and the bibliography is

Lastname, F. “Longer Article Title.” In Collected Essays, edited by I. Editor, 207–225. City, 1918.

There are two elements which I need rearranged (and correspondingly reformatted): 1) the editor needs to go before the title of the collection 2) the pages should go at the end in the bibliography like they do in the footnote.

The target footnote would therefore be:

F. Lastname, “Longer Article Title,” in I. Editor, ed., Collected Essays (City, 1918), 207–225.

and the bibliography would be

Lastname, F. “Longer Article Title.” In I. Editor, ed., Collected Essays. City, 1918, 207–225.

MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}

\usepackage[notes,shorthandibid,backend=biber,addendum=false,sorting=nyt,giveninits=true,useprefix=false,shorthandfull]{biblatex-chicago}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{jobname.bib}
@incollection{lastname18,
author = {Lastname, Firstname},
title = {Longer Article Title},
shorttitle = {Longer},
pages = {207--225},
booktitle = {Collected Essays},
editor = {Important Editor},
date = {1918},
address = {City},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Text.\autocite{lastname18}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Answer 1

Since you state that you are in the final days of a book, my suggestion is to only adjust the absolute minimum to get what you want. To do more in a complex style like biblatex-chicago risks producing unintended changes elsewhere (as evidenced by the number of edits I've made to this answer).

What will this answer affect:

• Only the incollection driver.
• Only move the editor (not translator).

To my mind, this will give inconsistent output with similar entry types, but perhaps this is not a problem for you. If needed, you could adjust other types in a similar way.

MWE

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[notes,shorthandibid,backend=biber,addendum=false,sorting=nyt,giveninits=true,useprefix=false,shorthandfull]{biblatex-chicago}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
  @incollection{lastname18,
    author = {Lastname, Firstname},
    title = {Longer Article Title},
    shorttitle = {Longer},
    pages = {207--225},
    booktitle = {Collected Essays},
    editor = {Important Editor},
    date = {1918},
    location = {City}
  }
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:incollection}
  {\usebibmacro{cmtitle+mstitle+vol+part+btitle+bstitle}}
  {\ifnameundef{editor}
     {}
     {\usebibmacro{cms-in:}%
      \renewbibmacro*{cms-in:}{}%
      \printnames{editor}%
      \editordelim
      \usebibmacro{editstrg}%
      \setunit{\addcomma\space}}%
   \usebibmacro{cmtitle+mstitle+vol+part+btitle+bstitle}}
  {}
  {}
\xpatchbibdriver{incollection}
  {\usebibmacro{mtitle+mstitle+vol+part+btitle+bstitle}}
  {\ifnameundef{editor}
     {}
     {\usebibmacro{cms-in:}%
      \renewbibmacro*{cms-in:}{}%
      \printnames[default]{editor}%
      \editordelim
      \usebibmacro{editstrg}%
      \setunit{\addcomma\space}}%
   \usebibmacro{mtitle+mstitle+vol+part+btitle+bstitle}}
  {}
  {}
\xpatchbibdriver{incollection}
  {\usebibmacro{volume+pages}%
   \newunit\newblock}
  {}
  {}
  {}
\xpatchbibdriver{incollection}
  {\usebibmacro{publ+loc+year}}
  {\usebibmacro{publ+loc+year}%
   \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
   \usebibmacro{volume+pages}}
  {}
  {}

\begin{document}
\null\vfill
BibLaTeX output \autocite{lastname18}.

Reference implementation.\footnote{F. Lastname, “Longer Article Title,” in I.
  Editor, ed., \emph{Collected Essays} (City, 1918), 207–225.}

\printbibliography

\noindent Reference implementation:\smallskip

\noindent\hangindent 2em Lastname, F. “Longer Article Title.” In I. Editor, ed., \emph{Collected
Essays}. City, 1918, 207–225.

\end{document}