Language mixup

buescher_itas · February 21, 2013

Hallo,

I have the problem of a mixup in language use in the "Chicago"-Style, like:

Wisner, Ben, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, und Ian Davies. 2004. At Risk - Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability and Disasters. 2. Aufl. London et al.: Routledge.

There it is "Aufl." instead of "Ed."

I'am using Word 2007 and the language style in the doc is "English usa".

Is there a solution at hand?

Thanks a lot.

Christian

dstillman · February 21, 2013

http://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages#citations_and_bibliographies

buescher_itas · February 21, 2013

Thanks a lot. Does it mean I have to switch languages any time I use a different language?

dstillman · February 21, 2013

For now, yes, though we're planning to make that a document-level pref.

buescher_itas · February 21, 2013

Many thanks, Zotero is awesome - I hope it will get better and better (and I get more accustomed to it).

adamsmith · February 21, 2013

Also, many styles - especially those for journals - do have a language defined, so those would always appear the same way.

buescher_itas · February 21, 2013

That was my reasoning too, using CMS, but funny enough I had german terms in the references!? Where do these come from?

Cheers...

adamsmith · February 21, 2013

For generic styles like CMoS, APA, Vancouver, etc. we localize the terms as explained in the kb article Dan links to. The point here is that people should have working styles in their language even if nothing specifically has been coded for, say, Ukrainian, Swedish, or Turkish (and I know that these styles are used in multiple languages).

As I said, it's mainly journal styles that have fixed languages.