One of the recent changes to the Sente bibliography format editor was in the way Ibid is handled.
There is now a format-wide setting (in the General tab in the format editor) that indicates that the format uses the term "Ibid." or some variation when the same reference is cited twice in a row in a document. This flag can also be used in cases where citing the same reference twice in a row does not use Ibid, but most of the details of the reference are to be omitted. More on this below.
In the simple case, you might want something like this:
4. Perry, Gillian, and Michael Rossington. Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 1994, pp. 37-38.
5. Ibid., pp. 82-84.
To achieve this, you need only check the Use Ibid box in the General tab in the format editor, and enter "Ibid." into the text box found there.
In this case, everything will just work as one would hope. Specifically, when a citation is repeated, Sente will automatically suppress every element in the selected format except for Cited Pages.
If you need the format of the Cited Pages element to vary depending on whether the citation has been repeated, you can add more than one Cited Pages element to the format, and make one apply in the context of "Ibid" and the other appear in the context of "not Ibid". For example, if you needed a preceding comma normally, but not one in the case of Ibid, you would need to create two Cited Pages elements and apply the correct conditions.
Chicago 15 N (Notes) is a good example of using Ibid in this way.
A variation on this can be found in Chicago 15 AD (Author-Date). Here is a portion of a document with the temporary citation tags in place:
and {Perry 1994@32} now is the time {Perry 1994@56}
Note that different pages are being cited, but the reference is the same. After scanning in Chicago 15 AD, the result is:
and (Perry and Rossington 1994, 32) now is the time (56)
In this format, repeated citations do not actually use the string "Ibid." but everything other than cited pages is left off the second citation. In this case, the text box after the Use Ibid box is left empty to indicate that the citation details (other than cited pages) should be replaced with nothing.
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