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I also have the problem with dates of editions. I always cite the
one I use, which is typically a recent one. But sometimes I need
my bibliography to give either an original date, of which my
edition is a reprint, or an original publication year. (E.g.,
if I'm citing a text from the 16th century, the original publication
date can be important to my argument. So the bibliography entry
would give that pub. year.)

I keep a date called "Original pub/written" in Custom 3. This is
a date that would normally go after the title in a Chicago A
bibliography. But a reprint is a different case. I put reprint
years in Custom 1. Reprint years are formatted with the publisher
data.  Thus one might easily have all three dates: the date of
the actual edition cited; the date of the original for that
edition (if it's a reprint); and finally the date of the actual
first published edition (not a reprint).  The Chicago manual
of style is (strangely) silent on the question of listing the
date of original publication.

I also use the "Original pub/written" (Custom 3) field for the
date of first publication in the original language.

Thus you might get something like this:

	Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An
	Introduction. 1976. Translated by Robert Hurley, vol. 1.
	1978; reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

I suppose that in some social sciences the in-text version
of this would be Foucault (1990 [1976])?

There should probably be standard fields for these dates in
the supplied EndNote structure so that the data is in the
same place, should people want to trade bibliographies.