Upgrade StorageOSCOLA and citing books
I'm new to Zotero and seem to have fallen over at the very first hurdle - unless I'm doing something drastically wrong Zotero seems to construct footnotes in different ways for the same resource depending on where the bib data was grabbed from. For example, Sealy & Worthington's Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law according to OSCOLA style should be cited in a footnote as:
Sarah Worthington, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11th edn, OUP 2016).
However, I get varying results depending on where the bib data came from:
--from a library catalogue:
Sarah Worthington and LS Sealy, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11th ed, Oxford University Press 2016).
**n is missing from 11th edn, **
--from ISBN search within Zotero (Add item by identifier)
Sarah Worthington and Sarah Worthington, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (Eleventh edition, Oxford University Press 2016).
**11th edn are in words** and author's name is repeated
--from COPAC
Sarah Worthington and Sarah Worthington, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (Eleventh edition, Oxford University Press 2016).
**same as ISBN search**
--from Amazon
Sarah Worthington, Sealy & Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11 edition, OUP Oxford 2016).
**and is replaced by ampersand and th is missing from 11th and edition is not shortened**
Can anyone help me with what the best thing to do here is? If I have to check and edit each citation I grab, I may as well do it manually in the first place. I realise Zotero does a lot more than just insert footnotes but still...
Sarah Worthington, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11th edn, OUP 2016).
However, I get varying results depending on where the bib data came from:
--from a library catalogue:
Sarah Worthington and LS Sealy, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11th ed, Oxford University Press 2016).
**n is missing from 11th edn, **
--from ISBN search within Zotero (Add item by identifier)
Sarah Worthington and Sarah Worthington, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (Eleventh edition, Oxford University Press 2016).
**11th edn are in words** and author's name is repeated
--from COPAC
Sarah Worthington and Sarah Worthington, Sealy and Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (Eleventh edition, Oxford University Press 2016).
**same as ISBN search**
--from Amazon
Sarah Worthington, Sealy & Worthington’s Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law (11 edition, OUP Oxford 2016).
**and is replaced by ampersand and th is missing from 11th and edition is not shortened**
Can anyone help me with what the best thing to do here is? If I have to check and edit each citation I grab, I may as well do it manually in the first place. I realise Zotero does a lot more than just insert footnotes but still...
For edition, the OSCOLA style will print the numeric ordinal form with “ed” if the the edition is in your data as a number (“11”), but will simply print the literal string if it’s stored in the edition field in Zotero as words. It will get imported however the database you input from reports it. You should always store numeric editions as the plain number (“11”).
As you can see, it is typical to have to do some minor curation of items when you import, depending on the quality of the metadata supplied by the database.