Zotero changes "vol." citation to "vols."

eeplank
Hello, I am citing a specific volume, folder, and date for a manuscript in an international archive (e.g., "vol. 1, fol. 186, 8 April 1544" but Zotero changes this citation to "vols. 1, fol. 186, 8 April 1544". Any suggestion for why it is adding an "s" and what I can do to stop it from doing this? Thanks!
  • fbennett
    We'll need to know what style you're using.
  • eeplank
    Sorry - I am using Chicago Manual of Style, footnotes.
  • fbennett
    Hmm. The manuscript type does not seem to have a volume field, so it must be entered in some other form. We'll need to see your input data. Please export the time as Zotero RDF, paste the exported content to http://gist.github.com, and post the URL from the address bar back here.
  • eeplank
    This is a little beyond my expertise - can you describe the process to me? Should I export the "Files", "Notes", or both? Once I have them, how do I paste the file/content on Gist? It does not seem that I can upload a file, and I am not sure how to open the file to cut/paste the code. Thanks!
  • eeplank
    If it is too complicated to explain, I can also send the file via DropBox or Google Drive...
  • RintzeRintze
    You don't need to export files or notes. Just rename the file extension of the exported file from ".rdf" to ".txt", and it should open in a text editor.
  • adamsmith
    this might not be necessary, though:
    where exactly do you input the "vols. 1, fol. 186, 8 April 1544" - i.e in what fields in Zotero? Or do you put them in the word plugin directly?
  • eeplank
    Great - thank you! I loaded it: git://gist.github.com/3554604.git

    For clarification, this is a published book of discipline records, but the standard way of citing it is not by pages, but by volume, folio, and date (thus, "vol. 1, fol. 186, 8 April 1544").

    Let me know if I need to provide other info. Thanks!
  • eeplank
    @adamsmith: using the plugin in Word (PC, Windows 7, Word 2010), I click on the "Zotero Insert Citation" button, select the "Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin (1542-1544)", click on this option and it opens the box for details, and into this box I type "vol. 1, fol. 186, 8 April 1544".
  • adamsmith
    that's what I thought. Use the suffix field in that box instead of the locator field (the locator is the field that defaults to "Pages") and this should work fine. because you're enumerating things, Zotero thinks you're citing multiple volumes if you put this in as a locator.
  • eeplank
    You are exactly right - it worked like a charm. Thank you!
  • RintzeRintze
    Note that according to the new logic I proposed for the is-numeric condition, "vol. 1, fol. 186, 8 April 1544" should be considered non-numeric, and thus pass unparsed.

    See http://goo.gl/r5gkH#number and http://goo.gl/r5gkH#choose
  • RintzeRintze
    Actually, the specification entries I linked to are specific to variables rendered with cs:number, which is not the case for the "locator" variable. It might make sense to extend the same logic to cs:label and cs:text when rendering the "locator" variable, though.
  • fbennett
    I've tightened the conditions for pluralisation. When the next upgrade of Zotero comes out, the locator variable should also be safe for this content.

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