best way for historian to use Zotero for collected works?
What do you suggest is the best way to use the collected works of a historical figure you're studying? For e.g. I'm using 15 volumes of the Collected Works of LLR (CWLLR).
1) right now i just have one item stored in Zotero under that name. And every time i cite I add Vol 1, Vol 4 etc. Is that better or is it better to add all volumes as separate items?
2) As i have it now, how can i put all 15 volumes separately in my bibliography?
3) is there a way to add different items (speeches) of say, volume 1 in in the bibliography separately i.e 'Speech at University of Oxford', The Times, 12 May 1920, CWLLR, Vol 4. Or something?
1) right now i just have one item stored in Zotero under that name. And every time i cite I add Vol 1, Vol 4 etc. Is that better or is it better to add all volumes as separate items?
2) As i have it now, how can i put all 15 volumes separately in my bibliography?
3) is there a way to add different items (speeches) of say, volume 1 in in the bibliography separately i.e 'Speech at University of Oxford', The Times, 12 May 1920, CWLLR, Vol 4. Or something?
This will let you reference each volume separately in the bibliography.
To cite a specific speech from a volume, add it to your library as a Book Section item. I would enter 'Speech at University of Oxford', The Times, 12 May 1920 as the Title and also include the page numbers in the respective field.
1) if the journal I'm sending my article to requires the APA format, do you have any advice on how to cite the kind of speeches i mentioned above? should they be in-text (which makes it look unweildy!) or should the speeches come as separate sub-items as part of the bibliography at the end (under each volume)? :/
Gandhi, Mahatma. ‘Speech at Cambridge’. In The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 2. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1958.
———. ‘Speech at Essex’. In The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 5. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1958.
———. ‘Speech at Oxford’. In The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 1. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1958.
———. ‘Speech at Sussex’. In The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 15. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1958.
———. ‘Speech at Warwick’. In The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 5. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1958.
(I'm not exactly sure of the citation conventions in History, but the way you are citing it above is essentially what I would expect in psychology. So I need some guidance as to what you are looking for.)
The only problem with citing it as I have above is that it will become too long perhaps. say even 20 speeches from each volume = 15 x 20 = 300 references. Not sure. Also, it will repeat the 'The Collected Works, Vol 1.' bit 20 times? Unless I'm missing something?
For my thesis, I think be using Chicago style.
But for a journal I'm submitting to I have to use APA (which makes things quite difficult as its an in-text format)!
But also, the length of the bibliography is basically inconsequential, so you could also just not worry about how repetitive the bibliography is.