Bibliography Style

Grettings All,

I've worked on some additions to the ELREQ page which includes a references
section (additionally, re-scanned image samples and glossary updates).  A
challenge with references is getting the format correct as it is subject to
change from organization to organization.  When not specified, I may opt to
use the APA style.

In this case I tried to apply the format I found here:
https://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#REF

which for a book, would appears to use the pattern:

<Title> "," <Author First Name Initial> "." <Author Last Name> "."
<Publisher> ","
<Publication Date> "." <City> "."

Trying to adopt this, I used the following pattern:

<Title> "፣" <Author Full Name> "።" <Publisher> "፣" <Publication Date> "።"
<City> "።"

I'm not aware of a norm here in Ethiopian publishing, but a good reference
book on writing that I sometimes follow is ተግባራዊ፡የጽህፈት፡መማሪያ።  by Dereje
Gebre of the AAU Amharic school (and past president of the Ethiopian
Writer's Association).  His pattern would be:

<Author Full Name> "፤" <Publication Date> "፤" <Title> "።" <City> "፤"
<Publisher> "።"

Where the <Title> appears in italics -aha a use case for italics!. Dereje's
format manages to avoid a complication with some Amharic titles that end
with a "።" (more often it seems with older titles).  Dereje's book in the
adopted W3C format would appear as:

ተግባራዊ፡የጽህፈት፡መማሪያ።፣ደረጀ ገብሬ።ንግድ ማተሚያ ድርጅት ታተመ፣ሚያዝያ 1996።አዲስ አበባ።

What seems visually awkward here is the sequence of two punctuation
marks "።፣".
In Dereje's convention, if a title ends with arat-neteb, the arat-neteb in
the pattern is dropped.  Or is it the other way around, the title's
arat-neteb is dropped, and the pattern's arat-neteb remains -?  The result
appears to be equivalent.

I sending these thoughts out for consideration for a format pattern
recommendation that could become a new section in the ELREQ doc.  Please do
speak up if you have know of any formal styles to consider.

thank you,

-Daniel