Citing Papers from a Book

meghen

Hi; When citing two or three articles by different authors from the same edited volume, I would like for the subsequent entries to use short-form citation of the book. Currently I am saving them in zotero as 'book section' and so they aren't related to one another in the system. Is there a way to do it differently so I can get the footnote type I need? Or do I need to continue manually erasing some of the details from my footnotes. I am using Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition (Full note). Thank you, Megan

bwiernik

No this isn't possible, sorry. Zotero has no way currently of knowing that two Book Section items come from the same volume. I recommend that you just manually delete the full details at the end of your writing after using the Unlink Citations button in the Zotero tab/toolbar (this would be better editing the live Zotero citations, which would prevent other automatic updates of the edited citations as you are writing).

If you really want to automate this, you could switch to Juris-M, a fork of Zotero for legal and multilingual writing, that has an Abbreviations feature which you could use.
https://juris-m.github.io