Change round brackets to square brackets

tomcho

Chicago style 16th edition (see 6.99) says:

"Chicago prefers square brackets as parentheses within parentheses, usually for bibliographic purposes."

Is there a way to change round brackets to square brackets in citations?

bwiernik

Enter the text within the parentheses as prefixes/suffixes on the citation. Zotero's processor should handle the square brackets. If not, you can type the square brackets in the citation prefix/suffix.

fbennett

I'm glad to see this come up. The parens/brace flip-flop feature is one of the prouder moments in processor development history. Here's a test that shows it in action.

(Now I hope I haven't jinxed it by writing that ...)

bwiernik

@fbennett Cool!

tomcho

@bwiernik Ah, I see. The text needed to say something akin to "(through, as Smith [1993] argues, the staging of traditional rituals)". So I just typed "through, as Smith [" in the prefix field and "] argues, the staging of traditional rituals" in the suffix field and that worked.

Thank you!

Dr_Costas

Hi all,
I am trying to get Zotero to do the same

text (text [ref] text)

but I do not want to put all the text in the prefix, because if I change citation style then there is a chance things will get complicated, like putting brackets instead of parenthesis and then i have

text [text [ref]]

Is there anything on the horizon to have an option for this?

Many thanks