No option for "Editor" when citing "Newspaper article"

tgrebel
I am currently working with late nineteenth century French newspaper articles. I need to identify the editor of the newspaper when citing, because the change in editor indicates an evolution in the contents of the newspaper.

I would identify the article as a "Book" in Zotero, but cannot, because these articles are organized into sections (and a "book" citation does not directly identify the "section" where the article can be found).



At the moment, one can only add the following for a Newspaper article citation: Author, Contributor, Reviewed Author, and Translator.

Can you add "Editor" to that list?

Thanks in advance.
  • Gracile
    A "Periodical" item type will be added in the future (not before Zotero 4.2) but it's for the whole periodical (either a single issue or the entire run), but not for a single article.
    (see also this thread)

    But there must be a workaround, so how would you cite that? Can you give an example ?
  • adamsmith
    yeah, as of now I'm not very inclined to add an editor to newspapers. In 99% of all cases I'd expect this to lead to confusion and wrong citations (since most citation styles assume that newspaper items simply don't have an editor), the situation described in the OP is really an exception.
  • tgrebel
    First off, thanks for the speedy replies.

    Unfortunately, "Periodical," while a great idea and needed for general citations of newspapers, doesn't work in this case.

    As of now, my citation would look something like this:
    “La Tripolitaine.” Le Figaro. November 24, 1888, sec. A travers les Revues.


    Would it be logical to simply use the "book section" format? Or perhaps adding the editor to the "Edition" section of the "Newspaper article"?
  • adamsmith
    but there's no editor in that citation - the question is how you would want it to look, then we can think about a suitable workaround (or a real solution).
  • tgrebel
    I see, you would like a potential citation example, rather than the original example with ideas on how to change it.


    "La Tripolitaine." Le Figaro, ed. Gaston Calmette. November 24, 1888, sec. A travers les Revues.


    I am aware that classical citation styles generally do not include an editor for Newspapers. Nonetheless, it would be much appreciated if you could find a workaround.
  • adamsmith
    edited June 23, 2014
    there's not good workaround, but you could add ", ed. Gaston Calmette." to the publication title field of the item. Since I assume you don't want the editor in italics, you'd have to enclose it in italics tags (since they cancel each other out), i.e. the publication title in Zotero should be

    Le Figaro<i>, ed. Gaston Calmette</i>
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