Upgrade StorageYear [Year] format
Dear Zotero Community,
In the field I study, my sources are produced in three different calendar systems; therefore, I have to state in my sources the publication years frequently in the "Year [Year]" format, e.g. "1300 [1900]".
It is not even uncommon that I have to state the publication year in the following format: "1300 [1900-1901]" (for when the beginnings and ends of two years in different systems do not overlap).
I realise the community was able to find a solution for "original publication year" (that initially looked to me like a similar problem) but the solution does not work for the case I have provided above. I also found out that a similar question was asked four years ago but the developer adamsmith answered there would not be an improvement on the issue anytime soon. I wonder if anything has changed in the software or if any of the users has come up with a creative solution.
In the field I study, my sources are produced in three different calendar systems; therefore, I have to state in my sources the publication years frequently in the "Year [Year]" format, e.g. "1300 [1900]".
It is not even uncommon that I have to state the publication year in the following format: "1300 [1900-1901]" (for when the beginnings and ends of two years in different systems do not overlap).
I realise the community was able to find a solution for "original publication year" (that initially looked to me like a similar problem) but the solution does not work for the case I have provided above. I also found out that a similar question was asked four years ago but the developer adamsmith answered there would not be an improvement on the issue anytime soon. I wonder if anything has changed in the software or if any of the users has come up with a creative solution.
I am using Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (full note, no ibid).
I am not using in-text citations (except for footnote numbers) but only footnote citations (for the sake of avoiding such problems). I will also include a bibliography at the end of my work.
The solution for original publication year appears in my footnote citation as
"(1876; repr., Istanbul: The Joint Committee on Levant Company, 1293)",
although it should be
(Istanbul: The Joint Committee on Levant Company, 1293 [1876]),
because those two are actually the same years.
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We can regard my question about range as of secondary importance. But let me still tell you the essence of the problem. It is as follows: For example, the last two months of 1293 in Ottoman fiscal calendar corresponds to 1878, but the first ten months correspond to 1877 in gregorian calendar. That is why if the publication of a fiscal report is dated 1293 and when we have no clue about its month of publication, it should be stated as "1293 [1877-1878]". However, as I have just mentioned this is rather of secondary importance, because I see other researchers tend to pick one out of two consequent years (often arbitrarily). I can always do the same.
issued: "1300 [1901-1902]"
This will override anything you have entered in the Date field when formatting citations. The quotes will force Zotero's citation processor to render it as a literal string, rather than trying to parse the date. I'm not sure how this will interact with things like sorting, etc., but it may work for you.
It actually works!
Only, it worked when I wrote in the extra section like this instead:
{:issued: "1300 [1900-1901]"}
Plus, I have to leave empty the date of publication box.
Then, it works. But this is good enough for me. I am not sorting my sources according to publication year. So for now, this is perfect. I appreciate this a lot! And I think this should actually be useful for many other researchers, as well.
and my word processor is Microsoft Word 2013.