Attaching pdf of a reprint in a collection
My Zotero database often has two entries for an individual item.
- One refers to the item as originally published. For example, "Doe, John. 1990. Hello World. Journal of the Obfuscation Society 22, 3: 201-205."
- The other refers to a reprint of the original, typically in an edited collection. For example, "Doe, John. 2006. Hello World. Pp. 375-381 in Adventures in Obfuscation, ed. Jane Dunn. NY: Obfuscater Press."
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If you store files as links, just link to the same file from both items, shouldn't cause any problems as long as you don't auto-change the link with ZotFile afterwards.
I don't know how to do this.
In many cases, I'd just cite the article that you actually have, i.e. the version in the edited volume. If you need it labeled as a reprint, Zotero has some basic functionality that you can access with a bit of a semi-official hack (and we can point you to that if relevant), but if you want a citation with full info for both (i.e the original work and the volume in which it's reprinted) you'll have to do it manually.