Footnote citations in parentheses

brkim
I often have some discussion or explanation in a footnote followed by a citation in parentheses. It would be nice if there was an option in the "Add/Edit Citation" box that you could check in such cases that would change parentheses within the citation to square brackets.
  • adamsmith
    there is a lengthy discussion on this with more detail than you'll ever want to know here:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7311/how-to-get-parentheses-to-change-to-brackets-when-citation-is-in-parentheses/
  • fbennett
    In the thread that adamsmith links, we went 'round and 'round looking for an automagic solution and came up dry, unfortunately. Handling it with a tick-box and processor option is an interesting idea, though. If you can convince the Zotero developers that the use case is common enough to justify adding the tick-box option to the UI, it would be possible to implement it inside the CSL processor.

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