Upgrade StorageMultiple bibliographies for scholarly papers and theses - quick and dirty
Since Zotero has yet to implement a way to tag items for direct export to a set of multiple bibliographies, you can do it yourself. The sort key is last name (or the full name for businesses etc.).
1. Work out in advance the most likely bibliographic categories you'll need (books, journals, newspapers, magazines, theses, video media, audio media, and so on). Also work out ahead of time the order in which you'll want these categories to line up in the bibliographic section of your term paper or graduate thesis.
2. Then add the number of that category to the beginning of the last name for each item in the category: a book by "Jones, Robert"
becomes "1Jones, Robert", a video "Murmuration of Starlings" becomes "6Murmuration of Starlings". (If you do this from the very beginning of creating your Zotero collection, it won't be so daunting.)
3. Don't worry about that extra number showing up in your Zotero in-text citations and later bibliography. Just get the dang paper written, proofed, and in final shape for your professor.
4. Run the Zotero bibliography creation command. Your multiple bibliographies will line up in the order that you numbered the last names: BOOKS: 1Adams, J., 1Adamson, 1Bryce, JOURNALS: 2Adams E.,2Adamson, B, 2Bryce College of Cheese Manufacturing.
5. Split your bibliographies apart, delete the extra digit by hand, and do the same for your Zotero in-text citations. Not a problem now because your paper is in final form.
P.S. A final note to Zotero: This is not a minor issue; it's a very real need in the academic community you have set out to serve. It would be dirt simple for Zotero to auto-create an <ItemType> meta-tag at the head of every Lastname and every Fullname. Then you add "Create bibliography by category" as a menu option.
Just think of all the new friends you'll win!
Derman
Istanbul
1. Work out in advance the most likely bibliographic categories you'll need (books, journals, newspapers, magazines, theses, video media, audio media, and so on). Also work out ahead of time the order in which you'll want these categories to line up in the bibliographic section of your term paper or graduate thesis.
2. Then add the number of that category to the beginning of the last name for each item in the category: a book by "Jones, Robert"
becomes "1Jones, Robert", a video "Murmuration of Starlings" becomes "6Murmuration of Starlings". (If you do this from the very beginning of creating your Zotero collection, it won't be so daunting.)
3. Don't worry about that extra number showing up in your Zotero in-text citations and later bibliography. Just get the dang paper written, proofed, and in final shape for your professor.
4. Run the Zotero bibliography creation command. Your multiple bibliographies will line up in the order that you numbered the last names: BOOKS: 1Adams, J., 1Adamson, 1Bryce, JOURNALS: 2Adams E.,2Adamson, B, 2Bryce College of Cheese Manufacturing.
5. Split your bibliographies apart, delete the extra digit by hand, and do the same for your Zotero in-text citations. Not a problem now because your paper is in final form.
P.S. A final note to Zotero: This is not a minor issue; it's a very real need in the academic community you have set out to serve. It would be dirt simple for Zotero to auto-create an <ItemType> meta-tag at the head of every Lastname and every Fullname. Then you add "Create bibliography by category" as a menu option.
Just think of all the new friends you'll win!
Derman
Istanbul
See my post from May 4th 2011 in this thread
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/16531/sort-bibliography-by-reference-type/
together with the general instructoins here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step