Pen names?

max1836
Not sure how Chicago manual of style handles pen names. I was including "Curiosa mathematica, V2" which was really authored by Lewis Carroll. However the pen name on the book is "Charles Lutwidge Dodgson". Sort of weird problem.
  • adamsmith
    we can't handle that properly in Zotero.
    CMoS suggests that, when the real name is known, you _can_ (if it is of interest to the reader) add it in square brackets after the pseudonym. Typically you'd e.g. not add [Samuel Clemens] to a Mark Twain book.

    That said, you're dealing with the opposite case here - Dodgson was his real name, Lewis Carroll was the pen name. I'd still follow the same practice, though, i.e. cite as CL Dodgson [Lewis Carroll, pseud.]
  • RintzeRintze
    That seems very similar to name translations and transliterations as supported by MLZ (although here the relationship would be real name <-> pen name, instead of being locale-based).
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