Properly cite journal issues with date ranges as opposed to specific dates

Longtime Zotero user here. First off, Zotero is a really incredible program that only gets better--it's a lifesaving resource for my academic work.

Quick question: There's something I've always wanted to be able to do with Zotero. I have quite a few journal article or magazine article sources where the issue date is not a single month (i.e. "August 1958") but a date range (i.e. "September-October 1958"). (This is often the case in double issues.) In my experience, Zotero doesn't seem to process this properly. If I input the date range "September-October 1958," it will cite the issue as "October 1958" in a document.

Is there any way to get Zotero to cite these types of sources properly without editing the footnote manually?
  • Zotero's date field is limited in what it understands. You can enter more complex dates in the Extra field using ISO format, so e..g

    Issued: 1958-9/1958-10
    (I think 1958-9/10 should also work, but would have to test)
  • Thanks! Just found this on the knowledge base too--cool!
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