edit request: McGill Guide 10th ed, journal articles: remove library catalogue field

edited yesterday at 9:24pm
Hey there!
This is regarding the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation 10th edition (McGill Guide). The great developer/volunteers updated the guide to 10th edition a few weeks ago (thank you!) but there is a recurrent bug that I keep coming across:
For the journal article item, the "Library Catalogue" field is included in the citation. As far as I can tell reading over the style guide, there is no guidance to include this information. It is particularly annoying because Library Catalogue is metadata that is included for almost all journal articles brought in using the zotero connector from the internet - I've been removing it from the metadata, but it would be ideal to just remove this field from the citation code for that item type.

I just want to also note that the location where "Library Catologue" is getting placed, is the location where McGill puts a different exceptional field. If it would be helpful to the reader to provide information about the type of article (case comment, legislative comment, editorial comment, etc), McGill guide instructs the type of article should be indicated there. I'm not sure if Zotero really has an appropriate field for this information. Gareth Spanglett developed a zotero library that replicates the McGill style guide to help people use Zotero, since it doesn't neatly fit the McGill Guide (see link: https://www.spanglett.legal/blogs/post/mcgill-guide-10th-edition-stylesheets-for-zotero) and he recommends inputting the "type of article" info in the "Archive" field. The issue is, the "Library Catalogue" seems to have priority over "Archive" - so if there is information in the library catologue field, only that will appear - not anything in the archive field.

All this is to say - it would be very helpful if we could remove the library catalogue field from this item type. Thank you!
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