Upgrade Storageedit request: McGill Guide 10th ed, journal articles: remove library catalogue field
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!
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!
It's very uncommon to use the Library Catalog field, but I wonder what Gareth Spanglett had in mind about it (https://www.spanglett.legal/blogs/post/mcgill-guide-10th-edition-stylesheets-added-to-zotero-s-style-repository)
I honestly don't think Gareth intended for the inclusion of library catalogue. Looking at his guide, there is only one journal article example that includes it (https://www.zotero.org/groups/5591714/mcgill_guide_th_edition_examples/collections/D7ASAK4W/items/XYT8G2QC/collection). The corresponding footnote in his word document stylesheet has the library catologue included, but the example from the original McGill guide from which it is derived does not! Screenshots below.
Gareth's guide:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u4655716/p7t0nuykv59888dvo5zn.png
McGill Guide example:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u4655716/wtvbldj9dzibw6cfx654.png
As you can see, the McGill Guide does not include library catalogue - I think it is a mistake in the CSL that it is included.
As to @adamsmith 's comment - genre sounds like a great idea. Would this just be added in the extra field, inputting "Genre: Case Comment" for example?
I have tried to get in touch with Gareth, not sure if I have the wrong email, but I am definitely keen to connect with him on this to help sort out some of the kinks in the CSL style.