Bluebook style: How to remove URL:s in non-web sources?

jksch

I need to use the Bluebook citation style for a paper (I'm using standard Zotero, not Juris-M). It works fairly well, but for any cited source where there's an URL in my Zotero library, the style will include it, even if the source is, say, a book chapter. It's redundant, adds to the word count and makes the references look messy with long URLs.

Here's an example of a book chapter citation:

Martin Sunnqvist, The Changing Role of Nordic Courts, in RETHINKING NORDIC COURTS 167–183, 169 (Laura Ervo, Pia Letto-Vanamo, & Anna Nylund eds., 2021), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74851-7_10 (last visited Jul 7, 2021).

I'd prefer, though, not to remove the URLs one by one from my Zotero library (unlike a reader of the paper, I might need them, plus it feels backwards to change things in the library rather than in the citation style).

So how can I edit the style to remove the URLs for non-web sources?

damnation

In Zotero itself, click on "Edit", "Preferences", switch to the "Cite" pane and uncheck "Include URLs for papers..." at the bottom.

adamsmith

I don't think that works for book chapters?

jksch

Thanks for the quick response – unfortunately, however, it doesn't work. The URL is there whether the option is checked or not.

damnation

Which Bluebook style are you using? There are 3.
Then we can specify how to edit the style to get rid of it.

jksch

Thanks, I'm using Bluebook Law Review.

jksch

Does anyone know of a solution to this issue?

damnation

Replace the access macro with this:
<macro name="access">
<choose>
<if type="webpage post post-weblog" match="any">
<text variable="URL"/>
<group prefix=" (" suffix=")">
<text value="last visited" suffix=" "/>
<date variable="accessed">
<date-part name="month" form="short" suffix=" " strip-periods="true"/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=", "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
</group>
</if>
</choose>
</macro>

General instructions: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step