ERROR IN MHRA CITATION

dhatayi

Can you help please? in a footnote with MHRA style, Zotero puts the page number in a parantheses, which should not be there. Any idea of how to remove them ? apart from doing it, manually, one by one?
Thanks for your help.
Dhatayi

noksagt

If you include the full page range in your zotero database, the page numbers will not be enclosed in parentheses.

If you use the "pages" part of the Word/OO.o plugin, that adds a locator to the reference & this will be enclosed in parentheses. This is useful for referring to a particular page of a proceeding or chapter in a multi-author volume, for example.

With a cursory reading of the style manual, I don't know what preferred behavior is.

Clearly "pp. 17-50 (p. 45)." is preferable to ""pp. 17-50 p. 45."

dhatayi

Thanks noksagt for your comment. I agree that when using a chapter in a multi-volume or journals, the bibliography could be written as pp.17-50 (p.45).
But my issue is that even when using a single author book, Zotero still displays the parantheses.

noksagt

Are you using the 'pages' field in the right-hand pane of Zotero (where the rest of your metadata resides) or are you using the 'pages' parameter that is part of the OO.o Writer /MS Word integration?

dhatayi

I am using the 'pages' paramater that is part of the OO.0 writer/MS Word intergration. Because after selecting the book i want to footnote, Zotero will prompt me to put the page number.

noksagt

As above, that parameter is for a "locator" within a resource & not for the complete extents of that resource. Locators are intentionally formatted with parentheses. You do not need to fill that prompt with a number (at least in the present OO.o extension).

If you don't want the parentheses, you can use the right-hand pane of zotero.

dhatayi

Thanks a lot.