conference name does not show up in biblio

dukesyr · April 25, 2009

Hi everyone,
I don't know why the conference name does not show up in the biblio in my word document. For instance, this item is read:

Wicaksono, Teguh Y., and Deni Friawan. 2008. Recent Developments of Higher Education in Indonesia: Issues and Challenges. In . Bangkok, Thailand.

After "In" there should be the name of the conference although there's a conference name in the firefox zotero. I tried other citations with different conference names, but the same annoying thing still happens.

Can anyone please help me with this?
Thanks a lot.

Rintze · April 25, 2009

Which style are you using?

Note to self: https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/extension/trunk/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/csl.js#L1789 seems to describe the relevant variable name:
"event":["meetingName", "conferenceName"]

dukesyr · April 25, 2009

Thank you very much.

Rintze · April 26, 2009

Many of the citation styles available for Zotero lack formatting instructions for conference papers (or at least conference papers get incorrectly formatted), mostly because these sources aren't by far as common as journal articles and books. If you tell me which style you'd like to use, I could take a look and (hopefully) correct the style.

dukesyr · April 26, 2009

@Rintze: I tried Chicago, APSA, APA. They all have the same problem. If you can fix it, that'd be great.

erazlogo · April 26, 2009

Chicago uses Conference Paper for papers published in proceedings, and Presentation for papers presented but not published. If you use Presentation the conference name will be included. Please don't "fix" this--the formatting is correct.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6168/conference-paper-problems/#Item_3

Rintze · April 26, 2009

My bad. Sorry to add to the confusion.

erazlogo · April 26, 2009

Well, I think you're right that many styles don't format conference papers/presentations correctly--it may be that APA and APSA do need fixing.