Upgrade StorageTwo "original publication year" questions
Hello,
I have two small questions about using original publication years in Zotero.
Question 1:
I saw on another thread that to get the original publication year to appear in a record, you needs to add some text to the "extra". For a work originally published in 1893, one would add:
{:original-date: 1893}
to the extra field. However, in a second thread, the instructions listed a different format:
original-date: 1893
That is, one would leave out the curly brackets and first colon. Its easier to use the second version, and it seems to work. Is there any reason that I have to use the first version? I want to be sure before I edit 53 records in my database.
Question 2:
Also, when I create a bibliography in Chicago author-date style, the original publication year appears in parentheses, not brackets. Is there any way to change that?
Thanks for the help!
I have two small questions about using original publication years in Zotero.
Question 1:
I saw on another thread that to get the original publication year to appear in a record, you needs to add some text to the "extra". For a work originally published in 1893, one would add:
{:original-date: 1893}
to the extra field. However, in a second thread, the instructions listed a different format:
original-date: 1893
That is, one would leave out the curly brackets and first colon. Its easier to use the second version, and it seems to work. Is there any reason that I have to use the first version? I want to be sure before I edit 53 records in my database.
Question 2:
Also, when I create a bibliography in Chicago author-date style, the original publication year appears in parentheses, not brackets. Is there any way to change that?
Thanks for the help!
Parentheses are the recommended format for original date in the Chicago manual. Are you sure that you want to change that?
Re. the first question: Is the first colon required?
Re. the second question. The in-text citation is currently formating correctly in Chicago style. For example Jones ([1913] 1970). However the entry in the works cited section appears as
Jones, Fred. (1930) 1970. A History of Shoes. New York: Shoe Press.
I believe that it should be
Jones, Fred. [1930] 1970. A History of Shoes. New York: Shoe Press.
Looking at the Chicago Manual, though, they aren't clear on this. I know that some presses want the later style. Is there any way to get this?
Thanks again for the help.
The manual specifically says to use parentheses in the bibliography. (15.38)
To change it, you would need to edit the Chicago author-date .csl style file. Open it in a text editor, find the reference for “original-date” and then change the prefix and suffix for that Macro from parentheses to square brackets.
General style editing instructions here
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step