AGLC subsequent references

micheil

Hi Zotero, thanks for all your work updating to AGLC4.

A. There seems to be an error with subsequent references for 'Bill' item type, involving inverted commas that shouldn't appear.
Eg:
1 Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 (Cth) - CORRECT
2 Ibid - CORRECT
3 (different source)
4 'Civil Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Bill 2018' (n 1) - INCORRECT

B. It would be fantastic if there were some way we could have the option of displaying a full citation in subsequent references, rather than using the '(n X)' cross reference. Our organisational style requires full citation of primary sources (especially cases and statutes) on each occasion (unless using 'ibid'). AGLC4 supports this option on page xii:

"it is accepted that in some contexts, the interest in being able to instantly identify the complete reference for a case outweighs the interests of consistency and concision. For example, it is likely that, for good reason, law reports and legal advices will continue to use complete citations of cases. Bearing in mind that writers' purposes and readers' circumstances will differ, the new rule regarding subsequent references is intended to be facultative rather than mandatory."

Would it be possible eg to create one item type that displays full citations in subsequent references? We could then use workarounds to use that item type for a range of source types relevant to us.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

joycekwc

The better way would be to edit the style to remove subsequent references or define which ones you want to display by item type. This is easy to achieve.

If you haven't customised a style before, you can do it by selecting the citations you want to change and opening the Style Editor (under the Tools>Developer menu). If it's set to AGLC, you should see the code for the style at the top and the output for your selected citations.

The relevant code in the style is the following (towards the end of the style):
<else-if position="subsequent">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<choose>
<if disambiguate="true" type="legal_case bill legislation" match="any">
<text macro="title-short"/>
</if>
</choose>
</group>
<group prefix=" " delimiter=" ">
<text variable="first-reference-note-number" prefix="(n " suffix=")"/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>
</else-if>

If you want all subsequent references to use the full title (as my organisational style requires), you can just delete all of the above code.

Alternatively, if your organisation wants to exclude cases, bills and legislation, you can do this very easily by changing the <text macro="title-short"> field to <text macro="title">. This will mean that all cases, bills and legislation will use the full title rather than the short title.

Once you have made the changes you need, you should change the code at the start of the style to a new title (eg add v.1 at the end of each) which will save your style a a fresh one (otherwise it will simply replace your existing AGLC 4th edn style). Make sure the file format is .csl:
<title>Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4th edition</title>
<title-short>AGLC</title-short>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/australian-guide-to-legal-citation</id>;


Then go to 'Save as ...' in the Style Editor, and save the style. You will then need to install the style as a custom style using Zotero>Preferences>Cite (you use the + button to find your new .csl style)

joycekwc

Oops sorry the previous comment didn't display the code. The code you are looking for begins in the field, and starts with else-if position="subsequent" and ends with else-if.

dstillman

(You have to put code in <code></code> blocks. You can edit your post above to add them.)

micheil

Thank you very much Joyce for your prompt response. We are particularly interested in your sentence: "if your organisation wants to exclude cases, bills and legislation, you can do this very easily by changing the field to ." I presume there is some code missing at the end of that sentence. Are you able to please advise what that code is, using dstillman's suggested method? Thanks!

joycekwc

Hi micheil -

Apologies, I'm in and out of Zotero depending on research projects but have added in the code as dstillman suggests, so hope that helps!

phoebe.t

Hi joycekwc,

I think there is still some code missing in your post after the sentence: 'Alternatively, if your organisation wants to exclude cases, bills and legislation, you can do this very easily by changing the field to .' This option sounds very helpful, so if you are able to amend your post to display the code that seems to be missing after this sentence that would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

dstillman

@phoebe.t: I've edited joycekwc's post above to add additional code tags.

phoebe.t

@dstillman - great, thank you!