Best practices to differenciate "twin citations"

theadri

I have several source with the same author and same year. I am using the Harward style.

Is there a way to insert the a,b,c,... following the date in the in text citation automatically?

How do you make sure you are always refering to the same paper using the same letter?

When I instert the bio at the end of the paper, is there a way to see all citation referering to a source?

thanks in advance!

fbennett

The "a", "b", "c" suffixes ("year-suffix" in bibo jargon) are added automatically in both citations and bibliography if the style requires them. Not all styles require them: just choose a style that makes use of them. The correspondence between, say "Smith 1999b" in citations and bibliography is automatic, and can be trusted.

There is no way to automatically retrieve or search for all references to a particular source within Zotero, but you can of course search for the relevant citation in the word processor.

theadri

Thank you!
Do you know a Harvard style that has this feature inlcuded? The one I currently use does not do it.

Will it also work when there is no publication year?

kind regards

fbennett

"Harvard" is a loose family of styles, so there are quite a few of them. It looks like eighty-seven of them use year-suffix. If you run a search for "harvard" on https://zotero.org/styles, you should be able to choose any one of these that suits the balance of your style requirements:

De Montfort University - Harvard
Elsevier - Harvard 2
Elsevier - Harvard (with titles)
Elsevier - Harvard (without titles)
Emerald - Harvard
Anglia Ruskin University - Harvard
Bournemouth University - Harvard
Cape Peninsula University of Technology - Harvard
Cardiff University BIOSI - Harvard
Cardiff University - Harvard
Cite Them Right 10th edition - Harvard
Coventry University - Harvard
Cranfield University - Harvard
Deakin University - Harvard
Dublin City University - Harvard
Dundalk Institute of Technology - Harvard
Durham University Business School - Harvard
Edge Hill University - Harvard
European Archaeology - Harvard
Fachhochschule Salzburg - Harvard
Falmouth University - Harvard
Gesellschaft für Bildung und Forschung in Europa - Harvard (German)
Imperial College London - Harvard
Institut für Praxisforschung - Harvard (Bahr & Frackmann) (German)
King's College London - Harvard
Leeds Beckett University - Harvard
Leeds Metropolitan University - Harvard
University of Limerick (Cite it Right) - Harvard
London South Bank University - Harvard
Manchester Business School - Harvard
Manchester Metropolitan University - Harvard
Melbourne Polytechnic - Harvard
Newcastle University - Harvard
North-West University - Harvard
Oxford Brookes University - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences - Harvard
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Spanish) - Harvard
Robert Gordon University - Harvard
Southampton Solent University - Harvard
Staffordshire University - Harvard
Stellenbosch University - Harvard
Swinburne University of Technology - Harvard
Theologisches Seminar Adelshofen - Harvard (German)
The University of Melbourne - Harvard
The University of Northampton - Harvard
The University of Sheffield - School of East Asian Studies - Harvard
The University of Sheffield - Town and Regional Planning - Harvard
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Harvard
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman - Harvard
University for the Creative Arts - Harvard
University of Abertay Dundee - Harvard
University of Bath - Harvard
University of Birmingham - Harvard
University of Brighton School of Environment & Technology - Harvard
University of Cape Town - Harvard
University of Exeter - Geography - Harvard
University of Gloucestershire - Harvard
University of Greenwich - Harvard
University of Kent - Harvard
University of Leeds - Harvard
University of Sunderland - Harvard
University of Technology Sydney - Harvard
University of the West of England (Bristol) - Harvard
University of the West of Scotland - Harvard
University of Westminster - Harvard
University of Wolverhampton - Harvard
University of Worcester - Harvard
York St John University - Harvard
Institute of Physics - Harvard
Monash University - Harvard
National University of Singapore - Department of Geography - Harvard
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies - Harvard
SAGE - Harvard
Södertörns högskola - Harvard
Södertörns högskola - Harvard (with Ibid.)
Taylor & Francis - Harvard X
The Open University - Harvard
The University of Western Australia - Harvard
The University of Winchester - Harvard
University College Lillebælt - Harvard (Danish)
University of Lincoln - Harvard
University of South Australia 2011 - Harvard
University of South Australia 2013 - Harvard
University of York - Harvard - Archaeology
University of York - Harvard
University of York - Harvard - Environment
Victoria University - Harvard
WHO Regional Office for Europe - Harvard

theadri

Thanks fbennett,

The style I am using is in the list. Suffixes did not work before, and I first had to insert them manually. After a while, the plugin started to insert them automatically. It's perfect!

fbennett

Good to hear. Remember that if you edit a citation manually, it will not automatically update. It is best to let Zotero handle citations until the very last stage before submission.