Email item type

Mocksim11
The bibliographic listing for email item types doesn't appear as expected for the version of Harvard I'm using. Any way of over-riding? And are problems like this common?
  • bwiernik
    You'll need to be more specific. What specific style are you using? How do you expect Emails to be cited, and how are they appearing now?

    Most styles don't provide specific format requirements for personal communications like emails. In such cases, the style will be coded to use the general format for the style. In most cases for most item types, Zotero/CSL styles tend to be very accurate.
  • adamsmith
    Generally what bwiernik says, but I'd be a little less sanguine about the likelihood that CSL/Zotero styles are correct for rare item types like e-mail. They probably rarely are, if we're honest. You can rely on common item types (books, chapter, articles, webpages) to be almost always accurate in all styles and you can rely on the most common styles (APA, Chicago, Vancouver) being almost always accurate regardless of item type, but otherwise it just depends on the length to which the author of a particular style went (if the style even covers particular item types; many don't).

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