Spacing issue in Item Type: Letter
Hi, I am citing a document using the item type 'Letter'. There seems to be a missing space between the Title and Type when the citation is used in a Footnote. I am using the AGLC4 style (but I don't think that matters for these purposes).
I have tried adding a space after the Title and also before the Type in Zotero but that doesn't appear to fix the issue. I wondered if anyone else has experienced this and was able to work around it, or is this something that needs to be repaired?
Thanks, Amanda
I have tried adding a space after the Title and also before the Type in Zotero but that doesn't appear to fix the issue. I wondered if anyone else has experienced this and was able to work around it, or is this something that needs to be repaired?
Thanks, Amanda
We can look at fixing this, but The AGLC guide doesn't specify any rules for including titles for correspondence: all examples are just Letter from ... to or Email from ... to, and the generic guidance is "Type of Correspondence from Author to Recipient , Full Date ,Pinpoint ."
So what do you have in the title field and what would you consider a reasonable way to cite it? If we're going to add it (which, again, not sure we should), I don't think it should be at the beginning of the citation?
I am actually not citing a letter using this item type - but found it displays an acceptable AGLC4 citation for a foreign jurisdiction government notification. I have the words "Ministry of Small Scale Industries" as the Title with "Notification No S.O. 1722(E)" in the Type. This displays as: "‘Ministry of Small Scale Industries’Notification No S.O. 1722(E), 5 October 2006". As you can see, the spacing is really the only issue I am concerned with.
Kind regards, Amanda
Where are foreign jurisdiction gov't notifications discussed in the AGLC?
I am dealing with a notification issued by the Indian Government, which falls under the "other foreign" category in AGLC4. It is a very vague section of AGLC4 that basically says you should use rules for similar jurisdictions for which specific rules are provided (and adapted where appropriate) [26].
As none of the other jurisdictions have a government notification style of document I had regard to the Standard Indian Legal Citation Guide. It provides on page 10 that such documents should be referenced as follows:
subject/title (in italics), RBI Notification (date), URL, last seen on dd/mm/yyyy
I understand your problem. If it is tricky to resolve I might try and find another option that works.