How to enter periodicals (not the individual articles)

JGebauer
Under which category would I enter a periodical, where I do not want to enter an individual article?

Example: One of the most widely used sources of music history is the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. When I cite from it, I rarely have authors to name, nor titles of articles. So the usual way to quote is:

either
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 14 (1812), col. 175.
or
AmZ 14 (1812), col. 175.

where 14 is "Jahrgang", not the issue within the year, since one year is completely number in columns.

Which category do I use in Zotero? Which fields?
  • zuphilip
    edited December 15, 2014
    That looks still like a journal article. You can use a citation style, in which the title and author are not showing up. There is no item type for a periodical itself. Usually, in libraries, (all issues of) a volume of a periodical is binded together, such that it physically looks like a "book", but I would not recommend you to go that way...

    BTW some information about title and author of individual articles in the AmZ can be found online.
  • adamsmith
    An alternative might be to take the "Zeitung" literally and enter it as a newspaper article.

    Since you are, in fact, referring to specific articles in the periodical, I'm with zuphilip and wouldn't recommend using "book" here, though that would indeed be the way to go for entering whole periodicals (we will very likely get a dedicated item type for that in the future).
  • JGebauer
    Zeitung doesn't work, it doesn't have "volume".

    Journal article would all work well, only, there is no author and no title. In Zotero I see... nothing.. for this reference. It is rather annoying to work with, and doesn't really handle well.

    Also, typing amz when adding a citation doesn't work, even though this is the short title in the entry. This should find it, no?

    Then in the citation it renders as

    , in: Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 14 (1812), Sp. 123.

    This would be fine except for the ", in:" at the beginning, that absolutely shouldn't be there.

    The reference in Zotero is actually only the periodical, not the article itself. But I see no category for this.

    I guess I will have to fix this in the style with a conditional.
  • JGebauer
    >BTW some information about title and author of individual articles in the AmZ can be found online.

    Well, you may have noticed that a substancial amount of articles is "Anonymous", probably the majority.

    It is custom to cite the AmZ just like did above. Authors are only named when they are relevant, or at least known.

    I wished there was a category for this, journal or something like that.
  • adamsmith
    (See my post above on that, then, though you'll likely have to hack this in the style if books are treated differently otherwise)
  • zuphilip
    Then in the citation it renders as

    , in: Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 14 (1812), Sp. 123.
    Maybe a solution for you is to change the citation style by using groups, see http://zoteromusings.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/writing-csl-features-and-best-practices/ , Best Practice 1.
  • JGebauer
    Thanks zuphilip, of course I knew about groups, but it's good to have some guidelines.

    Anyway, I am still learning, and will eventually rewrite the style, so it is logical and adheres to the good practice guidelines where possible. But right now I am just fixing things, so they work more less as they should.
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