Coding Guidance on Statute, Bill, Case, and Hearing

kristle

Due to the nature of our publications, our internal style is based on Chicago and Bluebook. (Chicago's legal citations are also based on Bluebook, but Bluebook has the more recent edition.) I am using basic Chicago footnote with bibliography as a base.

Creating styles for statute, bill, case, and hearing in bluebook style. Do you have any additional information on these types? Thanks in advance.

Codec

The mappings from zotero are rather thin for these types.

For a Hearing entry in zotero you will find
Type is bill and book
title => title
Contributor => author
Committee (not mapped)
Place => Publisher-place
Publisher => publisher
# of Volumes -> number-of-volumes
Document No (not mapped)
Pages => page
Legislative body (not mapped)
Session (not mapped)
Date => issued
history (not mapped)

For a bill
Type is bill and book
title => title
sponsor => author
contributor (not mapped)
Bill no (not mapped)
Code (not mapped)
Code volume => volume
Section (not mapped)
Code pages => page
Legislative body (not mapped)
date => issued date
accessed => accessed date

For a statute
Type is bill and book
title => title
author=> author
contributor (not mapped)
Code (not mapped)
public law number (not mapped)
pages => page
section (not mapped)
session (not mapped)
history (not mapped)
date enacted => issued date
accessed => accessed date

kristle

Thanks. Any tips on creating the mappings? It looks like you just edit the scripts...

Codec

Well yes it needs adjustment to zotero's internals. Its probably best to lobby for such a change so future generations can benefit!

bdarcus

Creating styles for statute, bill, case, and hearing in bluebook style. Do you have any additional information on these types?

I'm really busy, but I've been promising forever to finish a Bluebook style. I'll try to get at last something rudimentary posted over the long weekend.

Re: codec's reply, a few suggested mappings, using CSL variables (since i"m not sure the Zotero equivalents):

Document No [number]
Bill no [number]
public law number [number]
# e.g. all of the above are document numbers
Code [container-title]
# a code is really like a periodical