translator field missing in MLA bibliography output

sara

Hi. I cannot get Zotero to output the translator field (modified author field) in MLA bibliography format. I tried putting the translator before the author, and this did not work either. Any suggestions?

euj

I have this problem as well.

I previewed the citation in the Zotero Preview Pane (chrome://zotero/content/tools/cslpreview.xul), and it looks like the translator's name appears fine in some of the Chicago styles, but not in MLA or in Chicago (Author-Date) or Chicago (Note without Bibliography).
Can someone fix this, please? It's pretty important to credit the translator. Thanks.

erazlogo

Chicago (Note without Bibliography) and MLA display translators for me. Are you trying to display translator as author, or translator in addition to author?

euj

Sorry, should have mentioned that I can't get the Translator to appear for a Journal Article item type. The Translator field comes up fine in the Book item type.

An example -- I get this:
Derrida, Jacques. “Telepathy.” _Oxford Literary Review_ 10 (1988): 3-41.

...instead of this (which is what I want):
Derrida, Jacques. “Telepathy.” Trans. Nicholas Royle. _Oxford Literary Review_ 10 (1988): 3-41.

erazlogo

Thanks--this is now fixed in MLA--install from the Dev Styles section at http://www.zotero.org/styles/

euj

Thanks for the fix. There's one more tweak needed with the translation field in MLA -- the Translator credit appears in the wrong place for a Book Section item.

What I want is this:
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. “Acinema.” Trans. Paisley Livingston. _Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology_. Ed. Philip Rosen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

What I get is this:
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. “Acinema.” _Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology_. Ed. Philip Rosen. Trans. Paisley Livingston. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. [translator appears following the book title, rather than following the section title]

Seems minor, I know, but this error makes it seem like the whole book is translated by Paisley Livingston, whereas it is only the section/chapter that is a translation.

erazlogo

Unfortunately, there is no way to distinguish between translators for book and book section at the moment--this will be possible in the future hierarchical types structure.