citations with chapters instead of pages

I have tried a couple of author-date styles and there seems to be problem with almost all of them if your citations contain chapters instead of page numbers, something like: (Brown 1999: ch. 5)

With almost all styles I tried - except for APA - I got instead: (Brown 1999: 5) or even (Brown 1999, p.5).
This goes at least for ASA(dev), APSA, Chicago (author-date) and Harvard reference format 1.

If I try, say, columns instead of chapter it equally lacks the specifying acronym in the citation.
  • With some quick testing I can confirm and elaborate. Just like APA MHRA adds the abbreviations and APSA, ASA CMS, and MLA all leave them out. I am not sure what each of these styles requires. I would guess that people rarely refer to chapters, opting instead to cite the pages that make up that chapter. Harvard does stick "p." into each reference, which is clearly a bug in the style. In each other case I am not necessarily sure how they each handle things other than page numbers.
  • edited April 28, 2008
    This is fixed in Chicago Author-Date dev style, but the fix will only work with Zotero 1.0.4 or the dev xpi
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