No Short Title in the Supra of One of the Many Souces of an Author Cited

jbrosseau · December 11, 2014

Hello,

The "supra" to one of the many sources that I cite from the same author does not indicate the short title of that particular source, as required by the the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation( 8th ed). This can be really confusing at time for a reader that is trying to remember which of Prof. Glenn's book, for exemle, is "Glenn, supra note 2" when there is 10 of his contributions cited. How to fix that?

Many thanks,

Jonathan (McGill)

adamsmith · December 11, 2014

I don't think we currently have a fix for that, sorry.

jbrosseau · December 11, 2014

i am just curious: what is the utility of the "short title" in the info box then?

adamsmith · December 11, 2014

I mean - it's possible to use that every time when supra is used. What's not possible is to have it only appear when the supra is ambiguous.

jbrosseau · December 11, 2014

And how to use that every time when supra is used, while keeping the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation format?

adamsmith · December 11, 2014

You'd have to edit the style - essentially add <text variable="title" form="short"/> to subsequent citations.
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

fbennett · December 11, 2014

@adamsmith: It's not valid mainstream CSL, but in CSL-m with the Abbreviation Filter one option would be to handle this with a discretionary "hereinafter" value.