Item Type for archival documents

ICFAintern
I am trying to incorporate documents that I have collected throughout my research at various archives into my library. I think the closest item type to what I need would be document, but there do not seem to be enough fields to fulfill my needs. For example, there is a field for the archive, in which I have to include the library and the larger institution. There is a field for the location in the archive, in which I have to include the collection name, box, folder. There is no field to enter a page number, which I will need to include when citing these document. Is there a better item type to meet the needs of archival documents?
  • adamsmith
    Generally, for technical reasons use manuscript and not document - otherwise, using the archive and loc. in archive fields, almost any item type can be used as an archival documents - typical examples apart from manuscripts are e.g. letters, newspaper articles, reports, even books - Zotero was co-developed by historians who use lots of archival sources in their own work.

    The page number for a citation should be entered when you enter the citation via the word plugin, not as part of the Zotero item.
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog

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