MHRA - adding Issue # to Journal Article citation/bibliography

martinwyndham
Dear Zotero,

Another small question if I may... in the Ph.D. that I'm editing, the author references many relatively unknown journals from the early 1900s. For example:

Tret’yakov, Sergei, ‘Chem Zhivo Kino’, Novuy LEF, 1928
---, ‘Chto Novogo’, Novuy LEF, 1928
---, ‘Fotomontazhi Khudozhnika-bolshevika’, Sovetskoe Foto, 1935
---, ‘Gazeta Na Shestakh’, Novuy LEF, 1927
---, ‘Kak Desyatiletit’’, Novuy LEF, 1927
---, ‘Kino k Yubileyu’, Novuy LEF, 1927
---, ‘Lef i Nep’, LEF, 1923

... these Novuy LEF and LEF are journals, and given the limited information about them, what really distinguishes them is the Issue #.

For example, for this entry:

---, ‘Gazeta Na Shestakh’, Novuy LEF, 1927

... I have in Zotero the Issue number (#9) which would help distinguish it from all the other 1927 Novuy LEF's that follow. If you see what I mean.

Is it difficult to add Issue # to the citation and bibliography for journal articles? For example,

---, 'Gazeta Na Shestakh', Novuy LEF, No. 9, 1927


Thank you in advance, I hope it makes sense...
Best,
Martin
  • adamsmith
    <text variable="issue" prefix="No. "/>
    you'll have to see where best to place this and you may have to add a comma to the prefix or so.
  • martinwyndham
    Urf... gonna have to read a lot more on how to edit .CSL files! My best guess is that the line you mentioned would go somewhere in...

    <if type="article-journal">
    <choose>
    <if variable="volume">
    <text macro="issued" prefix=" (" suffix=")"/>
    </if>
    <else>
    <text macro="issued" prefix=", "/>
    </else>
    </choose>
    </if>

    ... in here as an <else-if ?>

    >_<
  • adamsmith
    no, just find the macro="volume" and include it in there for journal articles.
    Also - the style already does volume numbers - are you sure these are issues and note volumes?
  • martinwyndham
    edited December 16, 2011
    Mhmm, ok - I'll have a look. Thank you!

    I was wondering the same thing re: issues vs. volumes... I'm basically reformatting tons of footnotes, and when it comes to these journal entries, the only information I have is:

    Sergei Tret’yakov, ‘Gazeta na shestakh’, Novuy Lef, No 10, 1927, p. 19.

    Now... once I figured out that "Novuy Lef" was a Russian journal from 1920s 1930s, I figured that "No. 10" likely referred to the 10th issue for that year, rather than volumes. Especially since the production/distribution of this journal was relatively limited... probably an issue a month?...

    So, I don't think it's a volume... but it's hard to say since the publication is quite old. :O

    Any thoughts are welcome.

    Best,
    Martin
  • martinwyndham
    So,

    I found that this:

    <macro name="volume">
    <choose>
    <if type="article-journal">
    <text variable="volume"/>
    <text variable="issue" prefix=", No. "/>
    </if>

    ... worked for the Bibliography perfectly (yay!) but did not show up for the Citation. I tried adding:

    <text macro="volume"/>

    Into the <citation> section, and got 2 volume entries and the Issue number. (ie, Novuy Lef, 10, 10, No. 1)...

    ... think I'm just making a mess of things. Perhaps I could leave the Issue #s alone.

    =p

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