Citing original editions of Aristoteles and Saussure - how?

Nebel
Hello!

I'm using Zotero to write my thesis (last version of firefox, with word plugin, on windows 8) and I have to cite some really old stuff (for example Aristoteles) or works which were edited several times, but I must refer to the first edition (like Saussure : originally 1916, but my edition is 1969 - I have to refer to both...).
I use the style "Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals". I can't find a way to have both dates in the citations and the bibliography : I tried among others to enter two dates in the field "Date" (the original one in brackets, the actual one simply). For Aristoteles, I wrote : (329-323 av. J.-C.) 1856 in the field; for Saussure: (1916) 1969.
But now, I become this citation : (Aristote 329apr. J.-C.:141) (which is fully false... beforce and after J.-C. is quite different! I don't know how I got this "after"!) and for Saussure (Saussure 1916), where I would like to have: (Saussure (1916) 1969), for example, or something like that.
I really don't know how to make it right. AND: I'm not sure, I am in the right part of the forums, AND: i hope, my english is good enough to be comprehensible... So... HELP!
Thanks everyone who tries to help me...
  • adamsmith
    there is at this point no decent way to cite original dates. You'll have to workaround this - one way would be to connect the two dates with an underscore and then fix them in the end, something like 1916_1969 (it needs to be an underscore, other symbols won't do).
  • Nebel
    Thank you adamsmith for your answer!
    I'll try this and wait hopefully for an update of Zotero, which - I hope, will take these problems into account. I guess, I am not the only person in humanities, who has to deal with these issues... :-/
    Thank you very much again!
  • adamsmith
    yes, we're very much aware of this need/requirement.
  • adilstudio
    There's a way to do that, but it's just a "hack" method. When you specify the date of your book in Zotero, you just put a date (you got to choose one date between 323 and 329) then you add "av. J.-C." it has to be attached like this : "323av. J.-C."
    I did it and it works but the only problem is the attachement between numbers and letters.
  • bwiernik
    @adilstudio, there is probably a better way to get the formatting you want with current Zotero functionality. Can you post an example of what you want?
  • adilstudio
    If I would like to put a date before J.-C. like -323, I found that method bellow, otherwise it does automaticaly 323 apr. J.-C. (wich means 323 after J.-C. in french)
  • bwiernik
    edited September 28, 2016
    Ah, yes, Zotero doesn't currently correctly process negative years (sorry, I never work with BCE years so I didn't recognize the avant J.-C. abbreviation). At present, manually typing ap. J.-C. following the date will be the best way to get correct formatting. I'll look into seeing if a more elegant fix can be implemented in the short term.
  • adilstudio
    No worries. Thanks by the way.

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