Director in video recording bibliography entry - remove (dir)?

longtermrenter

Hi - my university requires Youtube videos to be presented thus:

Citation: (The University of Manchester Library, 2018)

Bibliography: The University of Manchester Library (2018). Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic [YouTube]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHaf6ZeJlP8&t=0s&list=PL5JZDOVO6NB9wdfu_uIQyzcu8r6f7ugc2&index=4 (Accessed: 15 November 2018)

However, Iwith no author field in zotero, I can only get The University of Manchester to show before the date by setting it as direftor in the item pane and adding director as a substitute in the author macro of my style. I then get the correct dispaly but have (dir.) shown after it - is there any way I can avoid this suffix?

damnation

We'd need to edit the citation style.
Which style are you using?
Can you link to the citation guidelines that show a clear example how this should look?

longtermrenter

The guidelines are here: https://subjects.library.manchester.ac.uk/referencing/referencing-harvard

I can't see anything in my style that adds (dir) so I think that must be in Zotero's rendering.

I am using University of Manchester Harvard from the styles repository but none of the existing University of Manchester styles in the repository actually render the university's guidelines correctly. I'm gradually adapting a style to do it but it is a challenge. I think I need to go through their whole list and break the bibliography entries down into sub-types.

Instead, I have just used the audio recording format which is in my style and renders the Zotero field performer without any suffix. I have added the format (medium) in the I added this to the title macro so I can put YouTube in the Zotero format field:

<else-if type="song" match="any">
<text variable="title" font-style="italic" prefix=" "/>
<text variable="medium" prefix=" [" suffix="]"/>
</else-if>