Upgrade StorageDisplay of (judicial) case in Chicago full note style
Hello,
I am not sure whether this question is placed more appropriately here or in the section on law-related styles (sorry, if it's wrong here).
I have the following issue and I could not find an answer in existing discussions.
Currently, I work on a PhD project in law. I use Zotero version. 4.0.26.1 and Chicago Manual of STyle, 16th edition, full note style.
The problem is with the way that the case law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) appears in the footnotes in the Word text.
I have entered a number of cases uniformly in the database, i.e. always filling in the same information in the same field. Yet, the way the cases get displayed in the footnotes varies between the following formats:
European Communities — Trade Description of Sardines, WT/DS231/AB/R, 208 (Appellate Body 2002).
China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials, WT/DS394/AB/R, 356 (Appellate Body 2012), para. 356.
In other words, sometimes, the paragraph number gets displayed before the brackets only and without "para."; in the other case the paragraph number gets displayed twice, and once with "para." in front. This does not concern only these two examples, but many others - this is why I am confident that I have not made a mistake when entering the cases without noticing it, but that the reason must be a different one.
Ideally, I would like a citation that is in the following format:
China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials, WT/DS394/AB/R (Appellate Body 2012), para. 356
However, the most important issue is that the cases are displayed consistently in one format.
Finally: I know it is in principle possible to modify Zotero styles to adapt them to own's one needs, but I have looked at the description of how to do this and I am afraid this is much beyond my technical ability.
Any advice is much appreciated - and please let me know if I have not delivered all the information that is needed to answer my question; this is one of the first times I am posting here.
Thank you!
I am not sure whether this question is placed more appropriately here or in the section on law-related styles (sorry, if it's wrong here).
I have the following issue and I could not find an answer in existing discussions.
Currently, I work on a PhD project in law. I use Zotero version. 4.0.26.1 and Chicago Manual of STyle, 16th edition, full note style.
The problem is with the way that the case law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) appears in the footnotes in the Word text.
I have entered a number of cases uniformly in the database, i.e. always filling in the same information in the same field. Yet, the way the cases get displayed in the footnotes varies between the following formats:
European Communities — Trade Description of Sardines, WT/DS231/AB/R, 208 (Appellate Body 2002).
China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials, WT/DS394/AB/R, 356 (Appellate Body 2012), para. 356.
In other words, sometimes, the paragraph number gets displayed before the brackets only and without "para."; in the other case the paragraph number gets displayed twice, and once with "para." in front. This does not concern only these two examples, but many others - this is why I am confident that I have not made a mistake when entering the cases without noticing it, but that the reason must be a different one.
Ideally, I would like a citation that is in the following format:
China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials, WT/DS394/AB/R (Appellate Body 2012), para. 356
However, the most important issue is that the cases are displayed consistently in one format.
Finally: I know it is in principle possible to modify Zotero styles to adapt them to own's one needs, but I have looked at the description of how to do this and I am afraid this is much beyond my technical ability.
Any advice is much appreciated - and please let me know if I have not delivered all the information that is needed to answer my question; this is one of the first times I am posting here.
Thank you!
does anyone have any advice?
Thank you!
I do use in my Word citations the "paragraph" field of Zotero; I just insert the number of the paragraph (like I would do with pages).
[
{
"id": 5086,
"type": "legal_case",
"title": "China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials, WT/DS394/AB/R",
"authority": "Appellate Body",
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
"2012",
1,
30
]
]
}
},
{
"id": 5058,
"type": "legal_case",
"title": "European Communities — Trade Description of Sardines, WT/DS231/AB/R",
"authority": "Appellate Body",
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
"2002",
9,
26
]
]
}
}
]
I think I know what happens: if you cite a reference the first time it will show up as but for subsequent (not immediate) citations of the same reference, you will see Can you confirm that?
So apparently this is built into the style and I cannot change it easily, unless I would modify the style itself, correct?
So I guess will have to use a different style. Is there a way of knowing (without trying out each style) which of the law-related styles would not do a similar thing and cite cases always in the same format?
When I browse the styles in the repository I will be given examples of how certain items appear in the literature list, but I can't see whether e.g. a reference is quoted differently the first time it is used and the other times it is used - or am I mistaken?
Thanks again!
@adamsmith: Can you look into this issue about CMoS?
China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials, WT/DS394/AB/R, 356 (Appellate Body 2012)
the paragraph number that's stuck kind of in the middle of the citation is unfortunately necessary for the Bluebook/Chicago rules for citing US cases, not going to change that (regular Zotero is unable to account for different citation rules depending on jurisdiction. MLZ can do this).