MHRA multiple texts by same author in footnotes

jbaill01 · May 23, 2012

I am using MHRA (note with bibliography) for my thesis and have noticed that citations of more than one work by the same author do not include a short title in the footnotes. Only the author's surname is included so it is not possible to distinguish the various works.

In a previous discussion (16th Dec 2011 http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20979/edit-mhra-to-add-short-title-to-subsequent/ ) it was suggested that zotero does this. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

adamsmith · June 12, 2012

sorry - looks like you never got a reply to this: Yes, Zotero should do that. Make sure you have the most recent version of the style (re-install from the repository) and then provide examples of when this doesn't work.

jbaill01 · June 12, 2012

Thanks for your reply. I am now using the most recent version of MHRA (with bibliography) dated 10/6/12.

The first citations look like this:

Howard S. Becker, Art Worlds (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008)

Howard S. Becker, ‘Art As Collective Action’, American Sociological Review, 39 (1974), 767–776

but the second time I cite them they are as follows:

Becker

Becker, 767-776

So the page numbers become the only difference.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thank you

adamsmith · June 12, 2012

I'll have a looks, thanks.

Spinianus · August 12, 2012

Hi,

I'm also trying to use MHRA with bibliography to write my thesis, and am having the same problem. Specifically, however, Zotero seems to provide a way of distinguishing between books by the same author - it uses the short title - but not between journal articles or book chapters. It'd be great if you could look at this.
Thank you,
Spinianus.

adamsmith · August 12, 2012

ah that could be helpful. I should get to this in the next week.

adamsmith · August 18, 2012

I believe I should have this fixed now - a new version of the style will show up on the repository within 30mins - update your local copy of the style by re-installing it from the repository.

Within a document you may need to switch to a different style and back for the changes to take effect. There may still be some situations that Zotero can't handle properly, but for most cases this should now work correctly.

jbaill01 · September 25, 2012

Thanks so much for this! I have had a look at one of my chapters after updating this and it seems to have fixed the problems I was having. Thank you!!!!!!

Mark Walmsley · December 4, 2012

Just wanted to say thanks for the fix. Had been struggling with a similar issue when referencing newspaper articles and this has sorted it out perfectly. Is there a way of automatically updating styles to make sure that any further patches are added (in either Standalone or Zotero for Firefox)?