Legal citing in APA ed7 style

steliosdimitriadis · 2020-01-11T22:18:05+00:00

I 've been racking my brains lately on how best cite greek laws (or other legal output) published in the official Government Gazette. Using Statute item, which blanks should I fill in? The abbr. "Pub. L. No." seems quite odd in Greek, although I know what it stands for. How could I change it? Appart from that, I believe that the number and the issue (letter A for laws) of the Gazette ought to be put together somehow (e.g. 122A΄or A:122).
Thanks in advance.
St. Dim.

bwiernik · 2020-01-12T18:11:17+00:00

The style is written to cite US law, and you would need to edit the style to handle other jurisdictions like Greek.

steliosdimitriadis · 2020-01-13T20:07:45+00:00

Thanks for replying. How do I edit style? Is there a link or a "proper" (that's acceptable) way? Should I follow Bluebook or something else?

bwiernik · 2020-01-13T20:39:13+00:00

I really can’t help you with the specifics of Greek legal citations. I would recommend you contact a legal scholar about that. Bluebook is what the APA CSL style follows. It’s designed for US Law.

adamsmith · 2020-01-13T20:50:45+00:00

I think Bluebook does include non-US citations, doesn't it? And if you want to cite Greek laws in APA, you should probably follow the bluebook-recommended format, but Zotero just doesn't have the flexibility to provide that.
One option might be to just cite the laws manually. If you edit the style, it'd be a custom copy for yourself, but it's fairly involved https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#edit_the_style