Add new pinpoint prefix "Article" (abbrev: "art") and other additions for international lawyers

julianwyatt

Hello,

I would be grateful if you could please add the option "Article" (abbreviated: "art." or "arts.") to the dropdown menu for pinpoint references (where you have "page", "section", "paragraph" etc.) All international law instruments (treaties etc.) and many non-English speaking statutes refer to their provisions as "articles", not "sections", so this is a necessary improvement for all researchers working in international, comparative or non-English speaking law.

If it is not too difficult to make such changes for the next version of Zotero, there are some further changes that would help international lawyers greatly, including new "Item Types" for sources which are "Treaties" (already over 158,000 of them deposited at the UN Secretariat) and "Decisions" (of international organisations) -- I would be happy to provide you with the required fields.

Thanks in advance and thanks again for this fantastic tool!

Gracile

1) See this topic.

2) New item types are added after careful scrutiny.
In the legal field, there are many topics on the forum, [e.g.: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6778/international-treaties-and-un-documents/] and a specific category : http://forums.zotero.org/8/

PS:
I must add that Frank Bennett is working a lot on the legal features of Zotero, see his http://citationstylist.org/

Anyway, your help would be greatly appreciated if you can contribute!

julianwyatt

Thanks for your reply, Gracile. My apologies for not finding those threads in my obviously quite poor searches. Definitely happy to help out!