Random period appearing after date

pdx_repos

Dear Zotero community,

I am using the following code to display the publication year in the bibliography:

<date date-parts="year" form="text" variable="issued" suffix=", "/>


Generally, it works as expected and the output is: "[year], ...".
When the publication year is a range, eg. "1960–1965" and I enter it in the "Extra" field as: "issued: 1960-1965". In these cases, however, Zotero suddenly adds another period to the output like this: "[year]., ..." I cannot figure out what's going on, since both times I am using the same code to display the data.

Any help would be appreciated!

adamsmith

Not exactly sure where the period is coming from, but 1960-1965 is not the right way to enter a date range in Extra. Ranges in ISO dates are given by /, i.e. 1960/1965. The style will interpret that correctly and display 1960–1965 (including using the correct en dash rather than a hyphen)

pdx_repos

Thanks for the info. I guess I will have to keep hunting for that period then...

adamsmith

We can certainly try to help find it if you post the whole style, but does it go away with a properly entered date range?

pdx_repos

It did not – but now I have traced the period to a piece of code in a completely different section of the style. No idea what went wrong. I will try to rewrite it myself before I trouble you again. But thanks for your support!

tzx1037

Hello! Though it has been one year since the last comment in this post, it seems that I have met the same trouble. I just found that zotero has recognized the "date2" in Extra: "issued: date1/date2" as the accessed date instead of the issued date when making the format as the requirements of degree thesis in my college. I have shot this trouble by inserting another format of accessed date.