Problem with dates for newspaper articles in Spanish - day is not included

alexisnsalas@gmail.c
Hello,

When I make a bibliography for newspaper articles in Spanish the date is not included.

For example, here is how Zotero outputs the information:
Gómez, Tania. “Promueve a mexicanos en el extranjero: Busca Kurimanzutto romper paradigmas.” Reforma, de diciembre del 2000, sec. Cultura.
yet, the date
29 de diciembre del 2000
is entered in the data boxes.

Why has zotero taken off the date, 29 (twenty nine) and how can I prevent it from doing this?

Best and thanks,
Alexis Salas
  • adamsmith
    let's start with what style that is?
    And then - next to that box you'll see one, two, or three letters - in English it YMD - I don't know if that's the same in Spanish or AMD - anyway do you see all three, or just two?
  • alexisnsalas@gmail.c
    Hello Adam,
    I am using Chicago Manual of Style (Note)
    I don't see any letters net to the box (if you mean the one where it tells me the style
    but under the field "Language:" I have written the word Spanish.

    Best and thanks,
    Alexis
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited September 20, 2012
    Look in the right side column with the citation details. At the far right side of the row with publication date information; what do you see? There should be one or more letters that show the amount of detail in the date. In English it is YMD for year, month, day.
  • adamsmith
    That's what I meant, yes. Sorry I didn't describe that very well.
  • alexisnsalas@gmail.c
    Hello again ,
    Next to the "Date:", it says
    y d (no "m").

    Thanks again for your help,
    Alexis

    P.S. It was not possible to respond to your comments via the link so I had to go to another computer, which still held this page open from yesterday.
  • Gracile
    (I had not followed this thread but there's a known issue with zotero Standalone: Non-English month parsing doesn't work. This explain, if you use standalone, why there's no "m" next to the "date" field.)
  • adamsmith
    if you input the date as 12-29-2000 in Zotero does that work?
  • alexisnsalas@gmail.c
    Hello Adam,

    Great idea for the work around. It works (see below) and interestingly, transforms the three letters back to YMD, only the date comes out in English, of course, when (I think) the proper way to cite the text is in the original.
    Gómez, Tania. “Promueve a mexicanos en el extranjero: Busca Kurimanzutto romper paradigmas.” Reforma, December 29, 2000, sec. Cultura.

    Thanks for your help.
  • adamsmith
    edited September 20, 2012
    In Chicago style that's not the case:
    "[For foreign articles] Months and the equivalents of such abbreviations as no. or pt. are usually given in English" (That's CMoS 16th ed. 14.193).

    If you want to use a Spanish version of CMoS, see here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages#citations_and_bibliographies
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