Adding More than One Criteria to Citation Using Zotero Word Add-In

vincedmet
I'm using the Zotero Word Add-in, and after I've added a citation (footnote), I would like to add both a page number and a folio number. So I go to Add/Edit Citation and click on the shaded area in the quick citation box. From the drop-down I select Page and enter a page number. Next I select Folio, but rather than following the page number, it replaces it altogether. This is the case, even if I hit Enter after adding the page number and then click on Add/Edit Citation again to add the folio number.

There appears to be no way (other than manually editing the citation) of using the Zotero Word Add-in features to add more than one criteria (page, folio, note, etc.) to a citation. Many of our research staff need to add both a page and folio number, as well as an annotation (note). Is there any way to do this?

Thanks.
  • bwiernik
    As you've noticed, citations can only have one locator. This is a limitation of the CSL language that Zotero uses for citation formatting.

    You have two workarounds:
    1. Add all of the information in the page field (e.g., Page | 256, fol. 1).
    2. Add one of the locators in the Suffix field (e.g., Page | 256 || Suffix | fol. 1).
  • adamsmith
    There actually is a better workaround (@bwiernik: Frank implemented this in citeproc)

    If you enter multiple locators into the page field in the word add-on preceded by their respective label, Zotero will recognize and correctly reprocuce them. E.g. fol. 2, p. 3 will produce that, etc. The full list of labels is the same one used in the ODF scan add-on: https://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/ -- the functionality itself is entirely independent of the add-on.
  • bwiernik
    @adamsmith Thanks! Didn’t realize this was available.
  • vincedmet
    Thank you both, I will give this last workaround a shot.
  • LiborA
    @adamsmith Thanks a lot, it is the very interesting feature. Unfortunately, the list of possible locators https://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/ is bigger like the list of locators in the CSL http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/1.0.1/specification.html#locators. It leads to the impossibility of translation of some locators. Or I am wrong?
    For example, I would like to cite chapter and subchapter. But in the Czech template (for example ISO 690) I get:
    (Author 2017, kap. 2, subch. 5) instead of (Author 2017, kap. 2, podkap. 5)

    @fbennett I also find a possible error. If I cite paragraph ("odst." in Czech) and chapter ("kap." in Czech) the correct use of translation is dependent on the form of locator. I get:
    (Author 2017, odst. 5, kap. 2) if the chapter is numeric but (Author 2017, odst. 5, Závěry) if the chapter is textual. If the chapter is used first, then the output is correct (Author 2017, kap. Závěry, odst. 5)
  • adamsmith
    The locators on the ODF scan page are also for juris-m, which has a couple more locators
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