Entering Multivolume works with individual titles into Zotero Standalone

Chicago Manual of Style, 17 ed., (14.118) cites the work in this format: The Complete Tales of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel, vol. 5, 1883–1884 (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963)... Both titles are italicized, the rest of the entry is in standard font.

The book record template in standalone, however, has only one title field. How do I enter the information into the record so that the notes output at least is close to accurate?
  • Can you give the full citation you want to see?
  • Robert Preus, The Theology of Post-Reformation Lutheranism. Vol. 2, God and his creation (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1972)...
  • The above is the full citation. 1883–1884 is the volume title (also in italics).

    We can't do the editor after work without an author, but I think that's secondary here. Having this with Henry James as author works just as well.
  • @adamsmith Two options I see here are:

    1) Enter this as a `book` and provide a `container-title` in Extra and ensure the style can accommodate that.

    2) Enter as a `book` with `volume` as “5, 1883–1884” and use the conditional test for `is-numeric` that is used in the updated apa.csl to control volume formatting. Eventually, once `volume-title` exists as a variable, switch to using that instead. Unlike with APA, this won’t work perfectly due to the volume number not being italicized.
  • That sounds right, yes. The full answer is that we can't properly do this at the moment, so anything will be a workaround. Not the first time this comes up, of course, and we're aware of the need to accomodate volume title.

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