Combining in-text and note references in one style

David Copello

Hello,
I am currently writing a book for which bibliographical references need to be cited in-text (author date) while archival sources need to be cited as a note. Are there any existing Zotero styles enabling this?
Thanks a lot!

damnation

Using an author-date style you can just create footnotes with Word and also place author-date citations there.
All those will then be reflected in your bibliography. Would that cover your use case?

adamsmith

That said, that'd have to be a custom style -- I don't think any existing style does would work for that.

David Copello

Hi, thanks for the reply! This is not exactly what I need actually, which would be:
1) Author-date for in-text citations of bibliography
2) Full note for footnote citations of archival sources.
I doubt that Zotero enables this, but still asking just in case...

adamsmith

How about using the Word add-on for in-text citations and simply using quick copy for the footnotes -- those wouldn't be auto-updated (or linked in any way to Zotero), but that seems fine in this case? https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies#quick_copy

damnation

If those "archival sources" can be distinguished from the other items (item type, a metadata field that only exists for those) then you can build that into a custom CSL style.
if "archival source": longer note format
else (all other items): short author-date format

David Copello

Wow, I can do that @damnation? Great!

David Copello

Well, actually, I don't see how, since the in-text/note format is defined in the global formatting options that seem to apply to every reference within the CSL style

adamsmith

Right, but you could something like (Copello 2021) for secondary sources and
Copello, Letter to Smith, National Archives, Zotero Collection, Box 14, Folder 3 for primary sources. You'd just have to manually insert the footnote for the latter as damnation said in his first post.

David Copello

Thx!