How to cite "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein"

alexreg

For example, volume 1.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691084756/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-volume-1-english

What should I be entering for Title, Series, Series Number, Volume, Short Title, and Edition? The web page suggests it's part of a series, but equally it might be considered a volume of a single work. The presence of volume titles further complicates things.

adamsmith

Title (and probably short title): The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Volume: 1
Nothing in edition, and any of the series fields
volume-title: The Early Years, 1879-1902
Translator: Beck, Anna
Publisher & place as usual.

Currently, I believe only the Chicago Manual styles properly display volume titles, though.

alexreg

Thanks very much. A few possibly silly questions, if you don't mind...

- On the web page, the book is labelled "English translation supplement", and "English translation" on the cover page itself. Should this be included in "Edition" perhaps, or is the Language field sufficient?
- I presume the Title and Volume Title should both be sentence-cased?
- Should I list the 'collaborator' as a 'Contributor' alongside the translator? I imagine this is rarely included anyway.
- Can I write "Volume Title" instead of "volume-title" in Extra, or not?

adamsmith

- I'd ignore the "English translation" part. If the title is in English and there's a translator, that's sufficiently clear... The cataloger at the Library of Congress, e.g., did (https://lccn.loc.gov/87160800 )
- Yes, exactly, sentence case all titles in Zotero
- Contributors are almost never used in citation styles, so this is up to you.
- Yes, pretty sure Volume Title: is equivalent to volume-title: in Extra (I think it's actually preferred, I just can't always remember the rules for converting from what is the citation style language variable)

alexreg

Thanks again: makes sense.