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    • CommentAuthormakonnen
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     
    When I create bibliographies, I get entries like this:

    Callicott, J. Baird. 2005. Ecology and Religion: Environmental Ethics, World Religions, and Ecology Ed. Lindsay Jones. The Encyclopedia of Religion 4:10735.

    I think I should get something like this

    Callicott, J. Baird. 2005. "Ecology and Religion: Environmental Ethics, World Religions, and Ecology" in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Edition, Vol. 4, Ed. Lindsay Jones.

    Note the quotation marks, the "in", the edition info, and the omission of the total number of pages. At a minimum, the edition should appear, and the total number of pages in the Encyclopedia should not be at the end of the cite.

    How can I help fix this?
    • CommentAuthorerazlogo
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2008 edited
     
    This has been now fixed in the dev version, thanks. These changes will be available in Zotero 1.0.4.

    In general, Chicago Manual recommends including entire encyclopedias, rather than entries, in bibliographies:
    17.238 Reference works
    Well-known reference books, such as major dictionaries and encyclopedias, are normally cited in notes rather than in bibliographies. The facts of publication are often omitted, but the edition (if not the first) must be specified. References to an alphabetically arranged work cite the item (not the volume or page number) preceded by s.v. (sub verbo, “under the word”; pl. s.vv.). ... Certain reference works, however, may appropriately be listed with their publication details.
    http://chicagomanualofstyle.org/ch17/ch17_sec238.html

    If you want to cite the entry, you should include the page number for the entry in the "pages" field.
    • CommentAuthormakonnen
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008
     
    Great! When is 1.0.4 due out?

    Two more things: first, unless I've gone crazy (which is quite possible), the bibliographies are sorted by date _descendng_ and they should, according to the Chi. Manual of Style, be _ascending_ (i.e., the earliest work first). See 16.103. Second, the bibliographies repeat the author's name on consecutive works by the same author, instead of replacing the name with ________.
    • CommentAuthorerazlogo
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2008 edited
     
    Bibliographies were actually sorted by title --both errors are now fixed, thanks. (Fixes will be available in 1.0.4 which should be out soon.)

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