bibliography missing pages

myronm2

I am using the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and I want to list mostly book and meeting proceedings. My bibliography must have author, year, title,... and pages at the end.

If I select and right-click on references, I can "Create Bibliography from items." If I output Bibliography, the pages are missing but if I "Generate Report from Items" everything is there including pages. The way I understand the XML file in the editor, the pages should output.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening and how to fix it?

Thanks

adamsmith

Could you give an example of what you're seeing and what you'd like to see? The style should generally include page ranges in the bibliography but I'm a bit confused by your reference to books: Books don't have a page field in Zotero (just their total number of pages) and pages for books are typically not listed in the bibliography.

myronm2

Just a few comments about why I want this. I am a retired engineer. Even though I have been retired for over 20 years, I have always kept my private library in various bibliographic programs which brings me to the problem at hand.

All professions have societies that define that profession. There are many engineering societies, each of which thinks they have the best way of presenting information to their public. Their objective is to give information to the user in a clear, concise and understandable manner. You must present the final design to the client in a manner that cannot be misunderstood. One small part of that understanding is that sometimes the design document refers to books that require the page count and, at other times, it is unimportant. My habit is to include the page count.

I enclose a sample from the Vancouver format which would work for me if the year were moved behind the author. The second example is the one I prefer to use but it has no page count.
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Vancouver format - book - has page number but has the year in the wrong place for my purposes

1. McCuen RH. Hydrologic Analysis and Design. 4 edition. Boston: Pearson; 2016. 816 p.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering format - book - pages for book may or may not be given, author's choice. For my purposes, I want them.

McCuen, R. H. (2016). Hydrologic Analysis and Design (4 edition). Pearson. page count or range should go here.
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Thank you for wading through the rather verbose explanation of my problem. I hope you can give me some hnts as to how to edit the XML file.

Thanks.

adamsmith

Have a look at https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ -- good chance that'd help you find a style along the lines of what you need.

Otherwise, the number of pages are <text variable="number-of-pages"/>, so it's pretty easy to add to an existing style like American Society of Civil Engineers (which is the style you'd be editing when looking the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

myronm2

I followed both of your suggestions and they both worked like a charm.

Thanks