2.1b1 - Bluebook law-review - date abbreviation

jsharp79
I'm working with several newspaper articles and am having trouble with the dates.

The first problem is that none of the dates are abbreviated in accordance with Bluebook style. For example, a date input as 12/22/2010 or Dec. 22, 2010 or December 22, 2010 will all output as December 22, 2010 when it should abbreviate December to Dec.

The second problem is that several of the citations will only output the year of the article. I cannot figure out why some work and some do not as each citation is formatted in the exact same manner.

Are these issues with the beta version? Should I downgrade to 2.0? Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
  • fbennett
    edited September 25, 2010
    This is with Z 2.1 beta, and the Bluebook style that ships with Zotero? If the answers there are both yes, and you can wait a day or two, I'll take a look and see whether the style code I've been working with locally during testing is worth offering up. Z 2.1 can do some things needed by Bluebook (parallel cites, footnote backreferences) that weren't possible in 2.0.

    The date formatting issues should be simple to clear up, but it would make more sense to do any debugging (if needed) in the upgraded style, since the code is a complete from-scratch rewrite.
  • jsharp79
    That is correct. I am using 2.1b1 and the Bluebook Law Review style downloaded from zotero.org.

    On another note, I'm having some additional problems with the dates for books, websites, and reports. In those, it's only putting in the year (which for books is fine except it puts a an extra space between the opening parenthesis and the year). Also on a second reference to a book, the supra reference to the prior footnote is blank.

    also - the dates on the last visited portions of the cite do not use the bluebook date abbreviations, ie - Sep vs. Sept. in Bluebook

    Thanks for the help!


    Below is a copy and paste of the footnote from my document.

    Viktor Yanukovych, STATEMENT OF UKRAINE PRESIDENT: WE WILL CONDUCT ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION IN ROSUKRENERGO VS. NAFTOGAZ CASE (2010), http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/17376.html (last visited Sep 24, 2010).
    Balázs Jarábik, Ukraine: A Cold Winter After the Hot Summer?, August 29, 2010, http://www.neurope.eu/print.php?id=102274 (last visited Sep 24, 2010).
    Roman Olearchyk & Neal Buckley, Ukraine Gas Peace Threatens to Unravel, FINANCIAL TIMES, September 22, 2010, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fecf6b02-c667-11df-8a9f-00144feab49a.html (last visited Sep 24, 2010).
    Ellen Barry, Russia: Gas Deliveries Cut To Belarus Over Unpaid Debt, NEW YORK TIMES, June 22, 2010, at A12.
    Yuras Karmanau, Belarus Presidential Vote Set for Dec. 19, ASSOCIATED PRESS, September 14, 2010, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g129MNdvwnLXQTa0EyuPg7nWOVCAD9I7MI5G0 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    DAVID MARPLES, BELARUS: EUROPE’S LAST DICTATOR GETS A LITTLE LONELIER ( 2010), http://www.cepa.org/ced/view.aspx?record_id=263 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    BBC, RUSSIAN GAS DEMANDS IRK BELARUS (2006), http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6189379.stm (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    BBC, RUSSIA-BELARUS GAS DEAL REACHED (2006), http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6221835.stm (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    Energy Charter Secretariat, STATEMENT BY THE ENERGY CHARTER SECRETARY GENERAL CONCERNING THE CURRENT RUSSIA-BELARUS GAS DISPUTE (2010), http://www.encharter.org/index.php?id=21&id_article=209&L=0 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    PETER B. DORAN, CEPA COMMENTARY: TBILISI’S ENERGY FUTURE DIMS ( 2009), http://www.cepa.org/ced/view.aspx?record_id=194 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff, The Georgia-Russia Standoff and the Future of Caspian and Central Asian Energy Supplies, OXFORD INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY STUDIES (2008), available at http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/NG15.pdf (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    Energy Charter Secretariat, ENERGY CHARTER: ABOUT THE CHARTER, http://www.encharter.org/index.php?id=7&L=0 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    M.G. (Mick) Jarvis, International - Ch. 7, in TRANS-BOUNDARY PIPELINES: GETTING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET ( 2002).
    Energy Charter Secretariat, ENERGY CHARTER: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, http://www.encharter.org/index.php?id=269&L=0 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
    Jarvis, supra note___.
    Energy Charter Secretariat, ENERGY CHARTER: CONSENT TO ARBITRATION, http://www.encharter.org/index.php?id=323&L=0#c992 (last visited Sep 25, 2010).
  • fbennett
    edited September 25, 2010
    Great stuff. Thanks for the sample references; it's very helpful to see the scope of target forms you'll be needing in the short term. I'll take a look this weekend, and post again when I have something to show.
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