Upgrade Storagelinking between book sections and edited books
I'd like to enter an edited volume and then enter comments/notes for individual chapters/articles as their own entries. BUT I would prefer to be able to link the book sections to the edited volume so that I don't have to enter the publication/title info for the edited volume multiple times. Is there a way to do this that I'm missing?
I'm not sure I've put this in a very clear way - I see how to enter everything, but am wondering if there's a way to automate adding the chapters of this 20-chapter volume!
Thanks,
Marisa
(per instructions in the FAQ: How do I add an edited volume or a book chapter?
A book chapter from an edited volume is entered as a “Book Section”. Click the green new item button and select “Book Section”. You will now see both a “Title” field for the chapter title and a separate “Book Title” field. To add a editor click the + sign on the author line in the right column. This will create an additional Author line. If you click the triangle to the left of the new author field you will be able to change it to an editor.)
I'm not sure I've put this in a very clear way - I see how to enter everything, but am wondering if there's a way to automate adding the chapters of this 20-chapter volume!
Thanks,
Marisa
(per instructions in the FAQ: How do I add an edited volume or a book chapter?
A book chapter from an edited volume is entered as a “Book Section”. Click the green new item button and select “Book Section”. You will now see both a “Title” field for the chapter title and a separate “Book Title” field. To add a editor click the + sign on the author line in the right column. This will create an additional Author line. If you click the triangle to the left of the new author field you will be able to change it to an editor.)
Since this requires changes in the larger data model it's a rather substantial undertaking, that likely won't happen in the next major version of Zotero.
I am certainly no programmer, but I see that there is already a system for having "attachments" as shown by the + sign field. Could chapters be added using something in that field to allow for culling all chapters in one book together?
You can work with the "related" tab to connect books and chapters currently.
Is there a way to display the short title of an edited book (i.e. just a collection of separate chapters) in subsequent citations, where the chapter of the book being referred to is different?
Cheers,
Fred.
It's possible to sort of support this by playing games inside the citation processor (by matching container-title and issued date, for example), but that's probably not safe to do, and not something I would attempt to implement. The right solution will be to record the "parent/child" relationship in Zotero, and for the processor to use that information when constructing back-references. The basic infrastructure for that is there in the Related Items tab of the right-side panel, but both Zotero and the CSL language would need a little extending to make it serve this use case.