Upgrade StorageChicago 17 - estimated date of publication
It doesn't appear that this has been addressed recently. I have a faculty member who is citing archival documents with estimated dates. Chicago 17 says this (14.145):
"When the publication date of a printed work cannot be ascertained, the abbreviation n.d. takes the place of the year in the publication details. A guessed-at date may either be substituted (in brackets) or added. See also 14.132.
Boston, n.d.
Edinburgh, [1750?] or Edinburgh, n.d., ca. 1750"
How can one go about doing this in Zotero? Square brackets and all punctuation are ignored in the date field, so that's not helpful.
Is the only option to add [1750?] after the place (for manuscript items) and the publisher (for book items), leaving the date field blank for both? Am I missing something else?
Any chance future updates would honor punctuation in the date field, or allow for a dropdown for estimated/original/etc. dates?
"When the publication date of a printed work cannot be ascertained, the abbreviation n.d. takes the place of the year in the publication details. A guessed-at date may either be substituted (in brackets) or added. See also 14.132.
Boston, n.d.
Edinburgh, [1750?] or Edinburgh, n.d., ca. 1750"
How can one go about doing this in Zotero? Square brackets and all punctuation are ignored in the date field, so that's not helpful.
Is the only option to add [1750?] after the place (for manuscript items) and the publisher (for book items), leaving the date field blank for both? Am I missing something else?
Any chance future updates would honor punctuation in the date field, or allow for a dropdown for estimated/original/etc. dates?
?or~:Issued: ~1750Issued: 1750~Issued: 1750?You can also use
circa:Issued: circa 1750If you use BetterBibTeX, you can also replace unknown digits in a date with
u:Issued: 175uIssued: 17uuNote that the citation style also needs to be programmed to handle circa/approximate dates. @adamsmith @damnation It looks like the Chicago CSL styles don't have circa implemented. Can this be added?
For original publication dates, use the
Original Datevariable:Original Date: 1750?(http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#approximate-dates )
We've looked at EDTF with CSL for a while, so I _was_ aware that it's pretty complex.
@denlinkd this is now implemented in the main Chicago 17th ed. fullnote style and should work. We'll shortly update the other Chicago 17th edition ones. I'm not sure if we'll also do this for the legacy 16th edition ones.
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/blob/master/content/dateparser.ts