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
  • Citation issues are almost always specific to the citation style
    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?
  • Hi @adamsmith. Thanks for your prompt response. The title currently appears in the citation, it is just the spacing between title and type that is the issue.

    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
  • *The spacing between the word "Industries' and 'Notification'
  • right, what I'm saying is that the letter item type just doesn't expect a title in the metadata, so it produces unexpected outcomes and I'm a bit reluctant to tweak it (other than, perhaps, removing the title entirely, which wouldn't help you).
    Where are foreign jurisdiction gov't notifications discussed in the AGLC?
  • Oh right. Thanks @adamsmith.

    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.
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