Best practices for item/attachment relationship of multivolume works?

peterb12

I see lots of questions about this, but most of the focus is on how to get the styles to make the citation style you want (which is of course understandable.). I have a more fundamental question: What's the best practice for how we should be structuring multi-volume works in Zotero in terms of parent items and attachments? Let's take the example of a 3-volume book (or for that matter journal).

(A): Three parents, duplicated names?
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics [metadata: volume 1]
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics [metadata: volume 2]
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics [metadata: volume 3]

(B) Three parents, volume titles in names?
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics volume 1
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics volume 1 [metadata: volume 1]
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics volume 2
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics volume 2 [metadata: volume 2]
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics volume 3
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics volume 3 [metadata: volume 3]

(C) - One parent, all attachments?
Parent: The Feynman lectures on physics
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics volume 1 [metadata: volume 1]
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics volume 2 [metadata: volume 2]
|--> Attachment: Feynman et al 2001 The Feynman lectures on physics volume 3 [metadata: volume 3]

or (D)...something completely different?

What are people *actually doing* in practice?