STYLE REQUEST: Art History (short/ op.cit)

Hello everybody,

This is my first message on the forum so I guess it's nice to introduce myself. I'm a french academic and have been using zotero for three years now.

I have a style request, which would probably be very helpful for a lot of french students in humanities, especially in history and history of arts. It would be a version of Art History current style, but with a modification in footnotes:

After the first footnote with an item full note, the note would be shortened, with the use of "op.cit" or "art.cit" to replace the informations that follow the title of the item. Example:

For the books, first quote:
Claude Carrère, Barcelone, centre économique à l’époque des difficultés 1380-1462, vol. 2, Paris, La Haye, Mouton & Co, 1967, p.XX

For the articles, first quote:
Noël Coulet, « Les entrées solennelles en Provence au XIVe siècle : aperçus nouveaux sur les entrées royales françaises au bas Moyen Âge », Ethnologie française, vol. 7, 1977, p.XX


For the books, next quotes:
Claude Carrère, Barcelone, centre économique..., op. cit., p.XX

For the articles, next quotes:
Noël Coulet," Les entrées solennelles en...", art. cit. p.XX

With book titles in italic. I know it looks strange, with shortened titles and all, but that's a style that some universities use in France, to make works with a lot of quotes readable. It's obviously quite a job in CSL, a bit hard for me, any lead/ideas?
  • So the general approach would be to use the <if position="subsequent"> condition that you can observe in styles like Chicago Manual or Modern Humanities Research Association.
    You'd then have to distinguish between articles and books for op. cit. vs. art. cit.
    Maybe that can at least get you on the right track -- there's limited capacity for actually coding massive styles like that and most (all?) people who do that as volunteers limit their activity to journals and major style manuals.
  • Thank you adamsmith for the tip!

    Will try this today and let you know!
  • You also might be able to find help at http://zotero.hypotheses.org/, which focuses on francophone Zotero users.
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