Date field excludes Accessed date/Chicago Manual of Style 17
I need to include both the copyright date of a website and the date I accessed the page, using the Chicago Manual of Style (full note) style, the Book Section format. But the Accessed date doesn't get pulled into bibliographic data if the "Date" field has a value. I haven't found a rule in CMOS that makes these two dates mutually exclusive. Is this a bug or is it working as designed on purpose?
Thanks,
Donna
Thanks,
Donna
In looking more closely at this change in CMOS regarding the Access Date, it makes more sense to me that EE needs to modify its requirements to reflect CMOS. But I also think a custom format would be desirable to handle these databases within databases borrowed from primary records. At the very least, the ability to have a comment field like "Extra" included when you extract the bibliographic source text could open it up for us. We could use that to add the extreme detail EE demands, though I don't have much hope that we'll ever be able to have it dump the citations within perfect EE format. And while I'd love perfect form, I'm OK with just being sure I have a place to put all the layers.
Here's how I'm using the Book Section format to come close to EE on the situation above. The citation looks like this:
Alabama. Perry County. Probate Court, “Estate Papers, Bennett, Alexander R - Black, William, 1822-1914, ‘Bennett, Mardecia, S. [Mordecai S.] Perry Co. Est. 53-002-0093,’” in Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999, database with images (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Images 316-339, unpaginated; from Perry County (Alabama) records, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8799/004988768_00316/3123997.
It's set up in Zotero this way:
Item Type: Book Section
Title: Estate Papers, Bennett, Alexander R - Black, William, 1822-1914, "Bennett, Mardecia, S. [Mordecai S.] Perry Co. Est. 53-002-0093"
Author: Alabama. Perry County. Probate Court [all in last name field]
Edition: database with images
Place: Provo, UT, USA
Publisher: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
Date: 2015
Pages: Images 316-339, unpaginated; from Perry County (Alabama) records
URL: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8799/004988768_00316/3123997
It's awkward--not as intuitive as I'd like. It would be very helpful to have a freeform note field after the URL, to put that original layer "from Perry County (Alabama) records," rather than tacking it to the page field (very non-intuitive).
Anyway--way more than you asked. But I'd like to perfect the best EE options within Zotero, because I think genealogists will find Zotero their best friend, as it has been for me. I appreciate any advice you can offer.
Thanks!
Donna Baker