Special issue of journal

Apologies in advance, newbie question.

I need to cite an article from a special issue of a journal, using Chicago style. The relevant section is §14.77 (in CMOS 18th ed., but I assume it has remained unchanged from older editions).

Question: what is the current best practice in Zotero to enter the relevant metadata, specifically the issue editor(s) and issue title? For reference, BibLaTex would use issuetitle and (I think) editor.

This is substantially the same question as this old thread from 2014: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/197109/#Comment_197109

How has the situation evolved since? I could not find much about it.

Please note that I am not particularly concerned about current support in CSL styles. I can hack a custom CSL style for this particular article, or frankly even just type the reference manually without going through a reference manager. Anyway, I want my bibliographic database to be as compliant to standards and/or best-practices as possible, so that it might hopefully be future-proof (ideally, career-long).


For context (what is a special issue? why do you need that?), CMOS 18 provides the following examples:
Article in a special issue:
Arne Kaijser, “Driving on Wood: The Swedish Transition to Wood Gas
During World War Two,” in “Historicizing Renewables,” ed. Ute Hasendhrl and
Patrick Kupper, special issue, History and Technology 37, no. 4 (2021): 471, https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2022.2033387.
Special issue as a whole (akin to an edited book, "multiauthor book" in CMOS terms):
Hasenohrl, Ute, and Patrick Kupper, eds. “Historicizing Renewables.” Special issue, History and Technology 37, no. 4 (2021).
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