Interview Footnotes

uvaquiche

One of my chapters is composed of multiple interviews with two people. When I am citing these sources in Word (2007) in footnotes (Chicago Style), Zotero does not include the date when a source is cited for the second time. This means that the sources are all appearing as the same, when in fact they are different interviews. I wouldn't mind adding the date manually, BUT if I cite a source and think it will be the first time I am using that particular interview, and then in the editing process the sentences get moved around, I will no longer know which particular interview a citation came from if it is not noted correctly anymore.

Example:

First time interview is cited in text: Rose Hill, interviewed by Mary Davis, transcript, May 13, 1928, University of Virginia Special Collections
Next citation:
Rose Hill, interview
Problem:
No date to distinguish between-
First cite:
Rose Hill, interviewed by Mary Davis, transcript, June 4, 1928, University of Virginia Special Collections
Second cite:
Rose Hill, interview

Any ideas or should I just go with the manual add of date until there is a fix?

Thanks!
(I rewrote this entry because I hadn't received a comment yet. I think I posted the entry in the wrong place at first!)

Tjowens

What happens if you use the Full Note Chicago Manual of Style format. That should always stick in the full citation.

uvaquiche

I tried the Full Note Chicago Manual of Style format and the problem persists. For now I will just put the date in the edit tool (unless you know of another fix) until Zotero is next updated...I hope you do get a chance to address this in the near future! I just discovered the edit tool and that is useful.

The second citation of any interview, when there are multiple interviews with the same subject and interviewer, should read:

Rose Hill, interview, May 13, 1928

Thanks,
uvaquiche

erazlogo

Well, this is really a shortcoming of CSL. Since the date should only be added if there are multiple interviews with the same subject and interviewer, there should be something like disambiguate-add-date option in CSL.

uvaquiche

What is CSL?

Tjowens

Citation Style Language.

erazlogo

This issue is now added to an open ticket.

twinkyt

uvaquiche, were you ever able to get a fix to your multiple interviews + dates formatting question?

Although I'm using Zotero 3.0.7, I'm facing the same thing and have been tinkering with CSL to no avail lately.

I'd rather not do manual edits if I don't have to, but didn't know if anyone else had figured it out too.

fbennett

This can certainly be done with current CSL. The code for optionally adding the date would look something like this:<choose>
<if type="interview" disambiguate="true" match="all">
<date variable="issued" form="text" date-parts="year-month-day"/>
</if>
</choose>

twinkyt

Is that something that would go in the issued macro?

I came up with a workaround that looks a lot less elegant, which was to add another macro that I called issued-subsequent:

<macro name="issued-subsequent">
<choose>
<if variable="issued">
<choose>
<if type="interview">
<date variable="issued">
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</if>
</choose>
</if>
</choose>
</macro>

I added a line for the new macro, so the <else-if position="subsequent"> part of the citation looks like this:

<else-if position="subsequent">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="contributors-short"/>
<text macro="title-short"/>
<text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/>
<text macro="issued-subsequent"/>
</group>
</else-if>

I'm modifying the Turabian Full Note with Bibliography that was dated May 19, 2012.

There's a part of me that thinks that it's a lot of cruft (I'm a historian and I have very little coding experience) just to get a date into a subsequent interview citation, but I needed it in a bad way since I have multiple oral interviews to cite of the same people, sometimes by different interviewers, and disambiguation is a must.