Upgrade StorageFirst character lowercase ibid?
Hello,
for my citation style I use a German translation/abbreviation of the term ibid, which is "aaO." As you can see the first character should be lowercase and the last one uppercase. But Zotero always transforms these characters into "AaO." Is there any way to get the result I would like?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Letterus
for my citation style I use a German translation/abbreviation of the term ibid, which is "aaO." As you can see the first character should be lowercase and the last one uppercase. But Zotero always transforms these characters into "AaO." Is there any way to get the result I would like?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Letterus
adamsmith?
aaO and ebd are clearly distinguished there as well: "Ebd." means same reference AND same page, "aaO." means same reference but different page.
But however, it's what I need for my Master's thesis, so any help is appreciated. :)
it should be cf. ibid. not cf. Ibid.
I believe that has come up before--Frank, any thoughts on a solution? I could see uppercasing ibid only when it's at the beginning of a citations and not also after periods.
Expected outcome: cf. ibid.
Actual outcome: cf. Ibid.
"Many author have long debated this. Ibid." probably should be avoided.
As for heuristic:
- List of abbreviations
- If there is no space in the "sentence" before ibid. (this uses the assumptin that any sentence has at least two words).
For a concrete example one can look at the free issue http://www.mohr.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Zeitschriften/PDF-Probehefte/2014/ZThK_109_3.pdf and search for "aaO" or "ebd.". IMO a list of abbreviations seems more promising.
The problem with the list is that we'd need this in dozens of languages, which is why I'd like a simpler heuristic if possible.
zuphilip and adamsmith: My point is just about the lowercase first character! This is not about the distinction of "aaO" and "ebd." Of course it would be helpful if Zotero could do this as well, but I'm fully satisfied if I somehow manage a lowercase first character. That's simply because I do not have to use both "aaO" and "ebd", but an uppercase character after an abbreviation would be grammatically wrong. So there's no way to submit a thesis containing such a mistake.
What would be of already great use for my case is a simple heuristic like this:
A reference with prefix uses "aaO.", a reference without prefix uses "AaO."
Thank you very much for your commitment and quick reaction!
I have read this discussion. I have exactly the same problem like Letterus two month before.
If there is preceding word like "Vgl."I need "ebd." and if there is no prefix I need "Ebd."
I tried the processor patch plugin, but nothing happened. I still have already the problem.
I am using Zotero for Mac with the word plugin and I am excited of the functions of Zotero. A very helpful tool to write my bachelor thesis.
Is there a possibility to live up to a standard of my university in Germany?
Many thanks for your support
The processor plugin doesn't work on Standalone, so that'd explain why it's not working with earlier versions of Zotero.
I use 4.0.25.3 release of zotero.
I will change my csl with the notice of Letterus to define a "capitalize-first".
I will check this.
@fbennett @Dan -- any thoughts on why this isn't in 4.0.25? Did Zotero not use the latest citeproc?
Again, this will already work in Zotero for Firefox with the patch plugin, but won't in Standalone.
then I have to wait for the next release for standalone.
Hopefully it is coming out before I reached my deadline for my thesis.
Thank you adamsmith
The processor patch plugin should work, but only in Firefox (not Standalone). If you've tried it with Zotero for Firefox and it doesn't fix the problem, write back and we'll get it sorted out.