What's the Zotero way of dealing with chapter in a book?
Consider the scenario that I have a book entry, with several chapters. I might use the several chapters for different occasions. For example, one time I need the whole book. Next time, I need only specific chapter from the book, to avoid confusion for those who use my bibliography when I want them to read a specific chapter only.
The ways I do it now
1. Keep the chapters and the whole book separate entries. But it means they won't share the same attachment, for example, the PDF of the whole book.
2. Keep the whole book, and make the chapter a entry without attachment only with "related" pointing to the whole book. This is better, but needs an extra step to get to the document.
Any other ways, especially if there are Zotero's preferred way, to organize the chapter-book relation? Is there a way to do it with a single entry? Thanks in advance.
The ways I do it now
1. Keep the chapters and the whole book separate entries. But it means they won't share the same attachment, for example, the PDF of the whole book.
2. Keep the whole book, and make the chapter a entry without attachment only with "related" pointing to the whole book. This is better, but needs an extra step to get to the document.
Any other ways, especially if there are Zotero's preferred way, to organize the chapter-book relation? Is there a way to do it with a single entry? Thanks in advance.
Are the devs planning to address this shortcoming in the future? I'm deciding if I should go through my library and create separate "Book Chapter" items for the chapters that I'm writing about. To me this seems like a hacky workaround and not very much in the spirit of Zotero as first-and-foremost a citation manager, since in the end I will be citing the book rather than the chapter. Alternatively, when I use an external markdown editor and drag my highlights from Zotero's PDF annotations into VS Code or IA Writer, the
zotero://open-pdf/
links always point to the proper PDF attachment. But working with an external editor comes with its own sacrifices as well.So this is almost certainly a bug and would be helpful to report with reproducible details (I'd generally recommend erring on the side of formulating posts as precise reports of undesired behavior rather than reflections on the nature of Zotero; the former are much more helpful for devs)