Upgrade StorageEdit MHRA to add Short Title to Subsequent?
Dear Zotero Forums,
First of all - thank you for this awesome tool. I took on a side job of editing a gigantic PHD (primarily formatting footnotes) and Zotero has saved my life. ;p
I have a quick question, and I've tried to google search it to see if it's been asked before... (closest I found was a dicussion from 2010 called "MHRA: problem citing multiple works by same author")...
Quite simply, I would like to add a short title to the subsequent citations... for example:
CURRENT:
1 Evgeny Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 275.
2 Dobrenko, p. 5.
DESIRED:
1 Evgeny Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 275.
2 Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism, p. 5.
I suppose that according to strict MHRA the short title is not needed/necessary, but I would like to add it... and I'd like to know how to edit the .csl to do so. I am trying to learn but the XML is wrinkling my brain.
Any comments welcome!
Thank you,
Martin
First of all - thank you for this awesome tool. I took on a side job of editing a gigantic PHD (primarily formatting footnotes) and Zotero has saved my life. ;p
I have a quick question, and I've tried to google search it to see if it's been asked before... (closest I found was a dicussion from 2010 called "MHRA: problem citing multiple works by same author")...
Quite simply, I would like to add a short title to the subsequent citations... for example:
CURRENT:
1 Evgeny Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 275.
2 Dobrenko, p. 5.
DESIRED:
1 Evgeny Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 275.
2 Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism, p. 5.
I suppose that according to strict MHRA the short title is not needed/necessary, but I would like to add it... and I'd like to know how to edit the .csl to do so. I am trying to learn but the XML is wrinkling my brain.
Any comments welcome!
Thank you,
Martin
Find the macro called "title-short"
and change it to
<macro name="title-short">
<choose>
<if type="bill book graphic legal_case motion_picture report song" match="any">
<text variable="title" font-style="italic" text-case="title" form="short"/>
</if>
<else><text variable="title" prefix="‘" suffix="’" text-case="title" form="short"/>
</else>
</choose>
</macro>
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
for general directions
Thanks! That worked like a charm. Out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say "MHRA does insert titles when there are several works by the same author."
As you can see from my "CURRENT:" example, it was the short title that was missing... I could add a number of "Dobrenko, p.X" citations afterwards and none had something title related...
Anyways, I think this is a good solution. :]
Cheers,
Martin
e.g. if you have one book by Dobrenko from 2007 and then an article by him from 2005 both should get short titles in subsequent citations. If there is only one Dobrenko work MHRA doesn't require a short title.
Zotero's MHRA style does that correctly.