How to introduce "With a contribution by..." in a Zotero citation?

Ainab

Hi, how do you do in Zotero when you have someone that is mentioned as contributor after the authors? For example: "With a contribution by...". Should I also place this whole sentence and the full name of the contributor in the Author tab? Thank you very much for your help!
Aina

bwiernik

If you just want to include the information in your library for searching, etc., enter this person as a Contributor. If you want it to show up in your bibliography/citations, how exactly do you want it to appear? Can you give an example? What citation style are you using?

Ainab

Hi Bwiernik, thank you very much for your quick answer. In the report it appears as: name of the author, and following it reads: With a contribution by S. Birmingham. My question is: how should this contributor appear in the bibliography? I usually use IEEE style. I always introduce the authors in Zotero, but I have never encountered a mention to a contributor. Thus, I'm not sure how should I cite this. Should it appear in the citation? Or should I discard it and just go with the authors? If I would decide to introduce a contributor in the citation, where should I do so within Zotero's citation input system? In the Authors' tab? Is there a specific tab for this? Thank you very much!

bwiernik

For most styles, I would just omit that person from the reference entirely. Enter it as a Contributor in Zotero. It won’t appear in citations, but that is consistent with most practice.

Ainab

Ok great, will do as you say. Thank you very much for your help!