Citing published interviews

edited March 20, 2022
Zotero has an item type for unpublished interviews, but there doesn't seem to be a way to correctly handle the interviewer's name in published interviews (which are treated as journal articles). I'm using the Chicago Manual of Style, full note style. Here's an example of a correctly structured interview entry (make the suitable adjustments for a bibliography entry):

Fredric Jameson, “Imagining a Space That Is Outside: An Interview with Fredric Jameson," interview by Maria Elisa Cevasco, The Minnesota Review, no. 78 (2012): 83–94, https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-1550653.

Clearly it would be incorrect to treat Cevasco as an author. If I treat her as a contributor, she won't appear in the note, let alone as translator. So from what I can tell, the only remaining alternative is to incorporate that part into the article title:

Fredric Jameson, “Imagining a Space That Is Outside: An Interview with Fredric Jameson. Interview by Maria Elisa Cevasco,” The Minnesota Review, no. 78 (2012): 83–94, https://doi.org/10.1215/00265667-1550653.

In this approach, I have to remember to correct the punctuation. Is there an alternative I'm missing? Or should this be a feature request? It would take me far longer to learn CSL than just edit the text manually, so that's out.

(I've searched previous forum discussions, and problems with interviews have been discussed elsewhere, but as best as I can tell, not quite like this.)
  • Enter that as a Journal Article and then enter Cevasco in Extra like this:

    Interviewer: Cevasco || Maria Elisa
  • Ah-ha! Thanks, that works. I've wondered what that field was for; I just thought it was handy for brief notes, which I've occasionally used it for.
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