What kind of document type should I choose for a UN convention?

gagarine

My question is about convention from UN. For example UNCLOS (1982) http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf

What is important is for example when it was signed, when it was effective and the depositary (For UN it's always the Secretary General).

In general, I have a hard time to add international law references and legislation.

adamsmith

Yeah, there's nothing great. juris-m has a lot more options (including a treaty item type which would probably work well here). In vanilla Zotero, I'd probably go with report. CSL has treaty, so you can code the item type using
`type: treaty`
in the Extra field, but not many styles are actually going to use that, so not going to be a huge help.

gagarine

Why juris-m is not merged in Zotero, at least some part? Not everybody is working all day with legal references, but almost everybody will need to references some laws at some point.

adamsmith

While that's generally still the hope, it's not currently happening because

a)the issue with changing the Zotero database schema note in the pinned thread on new item types/fields (that's e.g. why there is no Treaty item type in Zotero)

b) because it's a _ton_ of work. Part of the reason that Frank started juris-m was that legal referencing is so exceedlingly complicated that it really did benefit from significant experimentation, which was much more approriately done in a fork that in the stable software. I think it's pretty mature now, but it also thousands of lines of differences to Zotero.

gagarine

I see. Juris-m is going to start a port to the V5... perhaps it's a good time to see if it can be merged.

Thanks for the info.

bwiernik

Juris-M has a nearly working beta for V5. However, it still is thousands of lines of code different from vanilla Zotero, so merging still represents a huge effort.