Frank seems less worried about this, but to me it seems like a primary source toggle is both a huge amount of work to implement at all levels and in many ways a bit of a hack, so I'm not very happy with that option.
I was writing at cross purposes, it turns out; I wasn't understanding the use case properly. A toggle or discrete type can be used for commonly used sources that are referenced in shorthand form and excluded from the bibliography, but this is a very different kettle of fish.
My problem is the following, I use two types of references and I would like for them to appear in a different style:
1) Secondary literature (academic production: published book, book chapter, review article...) which should appear in the text in author-date format. Ex: (Smith, 2000). The secondary literature should also appear in the final bibliography. Ex: Smith X. (2000), How do to stuff, London: That Editor.
2) Primary sources such as press articles, laws, repport, interviews, forum messages, etc. which should appear in footnotes, in full note format. Ex: Parker Peter (2020), "Incident at the town hall", The Daily Buggle. The primary sources should not appear in the final bibliography at the end of the book.
This should be possible because those item are already saved in Zotero as different types (book, book chapter, press article, etc.) and appear with distinct icons in the Zotero library. The solution would be to "tell" the Zotero plugin in Word to quote the items belonging to category 1 (secondary litterature) in a specific style, for instance Chicago author-date, which implies they would appear in the final bibliography, and "tell" it to quote items to other category (press articles, laws, repport, interviews, forum messages, etc.) in a different style, for instance full note, and not including this style in end bibliography.
The request for having multiple bibliographies could also be useful here, but not fully as it does not allows for having two different style within the same document.
Is there any existing or planned solution for this?
I would suggest just adding your primary source references as regular footnotes with static text (not linked to Zotero). You can drag the item from Zotero to the footnote to insert a static reference.
Thank you for your answer. This is indeed useful in the meantime but it would be better if two styles were allowed, especially for not having to manually correct the format of footnotes one by one, and for automatic updates.
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Now it's 2020, so 8 years after the last post on this discussion.
I have the same question as the original author but I didn't managed to find any satisfying answer so far.
I also checked here:
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/secondary_citation
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1741/multiple-bibliographies/p1
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9293/classical-citations
My problem is the following, I use two types of references and I would like for them to appear in a different style:
1) Secondary literature (academic production: published book, book chapter, review article...) which should appear in the text in author-date format.
Ex: (Smith, 2000).
The secondary literature should also appear in the final bibliography.
Ex: Smith X. (2000), How do to stuff, London: That Editor.
2) Primary sources such as press articles, laws, repport, interviews, forum messages, etc. which should appear in footnotes, in full note format.
Ex: Parker Peter (2020), "Incident at the town hall", The Daily Buggle.
The primary sources should not appear in the final bibliography at the end of the book.
This should be possible because those item are already saved in Zotero as different types (book, book chapter, press article, etc.) and appear with distinct icons in the Zotero library.
The solution would be to "tell" the Zotero plugin in Word to quote the items belonging to category 1 (secondary litterature) in a specific style, for instance Chicago author-date, which implies they would appear in the final bibliography, and "tell" it to quote items to other category (press articles, laws, repport, interviews, forum messages, etc.) in a different style, for instance full note, and not including this style in end bibliography.
The request for having multiple bibliographies could also be useful here, but not fully as it does not allows for having two different style within the same document.
Is there any existing or planned solution for this?
Thanks a lot!
This is indeed useful in the meantime but it would be better if two styles were allowed, especially for not having to manually correct the format of footnotes one by one, and for automatic updates.
For those interested there is another discussion on this topic:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/71461/suggestion-support-for-different-citation-styles-in-one-document