How to exihibit "contributor" in reference (book item type) ?

cadudesun

Hi,

I am dealing with the style "Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT)".

In item type "book", besides "author" and "editor", just "translator" are being exhibited in references. I would like to exhibited the "contributor", attaching the same structure as "translator", but setting as default a specific Portuguese word "Contribuição". E.g.:

SCOTT, P. Text 1. Contribuição Johns Williams. Place: Editor, 2009.

Thanks in advance,
Cadu

adamsmith

Not possible and not planned afaik.
In what types of situation would a contribução be cited?

cadudesun

Every time a book is written by an author who had contributions for others. It is common, at least in Brazilian publication context.

I was expecting that field "contributor" could behavior similarly the field "translator" (just a matter of using CSL code, once the structure of both are the same, just changing "Tradução" by "Colaboração"). So, why does "contributor" field exist if it can't be used? Shouldn't this field be available to be used when inserting bibliography?

adamsmith

The field is available to store names that aren't cited, but in one way or the other associated with the book or other work.

But I still don't understand when this is used - could you give a more explicit example - what do contributors do exactly? Do they write separate chapters? Are they research assistants?

cadudesun

Take a look in this link:

http://i.s8.com.br/images/books/cover/img7/1098907_4.jpg

The book is about the use of ABNT style in Brazil and was written by two of the great specialist on the subject. Besides, there are two "contributors" (colaboração) of people who help in some way. They could be research assistant, intellectual consultants or writers of a very specific part of the text and so on.

adamsmith

ok. So such author's wouldn't be cited in English language citations - we'd have to think though the downsides of just adding contributors as another creator category - my worry is that some version of contributors exist in many databases with the assumption that they won't be cited.

There are "with" type of authors in English that are sometimes cited, so a solution to also fit them would be nice.

cadudesun

Actually, I am realizing that dealing with CSL style is less flexible that I was thinking about. I was familiarized with EndNote and it is easier there...
Even though, I could implement almost all ABNT current rules through CSL and Zotero is really impressive!
Best!