3.0rc1.1 SA “eats” sections in journal articles
I’m accustomed to Zotero ignoring sections in some item types, most notably journal articles (where “ignoring” means that when one selects “section” for one of these types the ”sec. ” is omitted in the citation that Zotero generates, so that the section number appears as if it were a page number).
My usual work around was, using a Chicago style, to simple select “page” and enter ”sec. ” manually. 3.0rc1.1 SA, however, blocks this workaround. Whenever I enter ”sec.” 3.0rc1.1 SA, apparently, “detects” that I’m entering a section number, not a page number and switches to ”section” automatically.
So I’m left with manually editing each citation in which I refer to a section of a paper. Please fix this.
My usual work around was, using a Chicago style, to simple select “page” and enter ”sec. ” manually. 3.0rc1.1 SA, however, blocks this workaround. Whenever I enter ”sec.” 3.0rc1.1 SA, apparently, “detects” that I’m entering a section number, not a page number and switches to ”section” automatically.
So I’m left with manually editing each citation in which I refer to a section of a paper. Please fix this.
The feature can be turned off in the processor, and the core devs might decide to do so before release. It's really a style issue, though: if you have a use for the locator labels, the style should provide them.
Here are "fixed" versions of the various members of the Chicago family. If you could quickly take each through a few cites such as you require and confirm that they work correctly, it would be a great help.
Chicago author-date:
https://gist.github.com/1709889
Chicago Fullnote with Bibliography:
https://gist.github.com/1709912
Chicago Note with Bibliography:
https://gist.github.com/1709917
Chicago Fullnote with Bibliography (upgraded syntax)
https://gist.github.com/1709926
Chicago Fullnote with Bibliography, no ibid (upgraded syntax)
https://gist.github.com/1709933
Let us know how these look. If they work as expected, I'll push them to the public repo immediately.
Frank