E-mail item type

sdspieg
Just wondering whether this contains all info that is required in the respective bibliographical formats. I.e. shouldn't the addressee be in there too? Also - has anybody ever thought of a translator for at least sthg like Gmail for this? Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    There's a translator for the Gmail print view (the other views aren't really feasible given how gmail threads & displays).

    Sender & recipient are both part of the template, so that works, but e-mail is not a CSL type and the Zotero item doesn't have a type field, so you wouldn't get something like [e-mail] in the citation. I store the rare e-mails I want to cite as letters with type e-mail, but you can also just add genre: e-mail to the Extra field of the e-mail item.
  • sdspieg
    You're the man, Sebastian! :) Thanks!
  • bwiernik
    medium: E-mail might be a better variable to use for example with APA or Chicago.
  • adamsmith
    edited December 22, 2017
    tricky, because letter type gets mapped to genre

    (which just underlines that we need to get this straight; the medium/genre situation is a bit of a mess)

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