Can you enter a range of years in the date field?

eoin_o
Hi,

I want to enter a range of years in the 'Date:' field for a book that was published in multiple volumes over a number of years '1973-81'. Does anyone know if this is possible.

Thanks

Eoin
  • adamsmith
    not currently, no, sorry. We're certainly aware it's needed and it's on the medium-term agenda.
  • eoin_o
    Thanks for the response.
  • paganpiper
    If you mean something like "2007-2014" this seems to work perfectly well in both standalone and online versions of Zotero. In the online version, the Cite Item function will replicate this in the various citation formats. However, it omits the second year in the standalone version. Why the disparity, I wonder.
  • eoin_o
    Thanks for the feedback - I've had this issue using the Firefox plugin.
  • adamsmith
    The website does different date parsing -- the fact that this works is pure coincidence. My general answer still stands: this isn't currently implemented, but is on the radar.
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    Along the same lines, it would be nice to have a range for dates in conference paper type. For example, March 13-16, 2016.
  • LiborA
    @gurdas: see this thread: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22914/citing-original-date-together-edition-date-1914-2012-is-it-possible/
    There is described how to send an unused variable to the citation output. The variable event-date can be what you need.
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    Thanks, LiborA.

    I recall a comment in another thread that Dan does not favor the use of curly feature in the extra field. That discussion was about adding DOIs to items that do not have DOI field in current version of Zotero.

    Is there a list somewhere of variables that can be used (with curly) in the Extra field?
  • adamsmith
    works with all CSL variables, since it's a function of the CSL processor. See http://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#appendix-iv-variables for a list.
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    Thanks, @adamsmith.
  • RokStergar
    I have a similar problem with a few journal issues that, while a single issue, have two volumes and two dates (e.g. vol. 2-3, year 1948-49). CMS footnotes manage the volume numbers, but not the date. This is what I get: 2–3 (49 1948).

    Is there a workaround or a solution?
  • adamsmith
    Yes. Put Issued: 1948/1949 into the extra field. That will get picked up by citation styles
  • RokStergar
    Thanks, that was quick and painless.
Sign In or Register to comment.