Upgrade StorageUsing short title for books
For some major reference works, it's quite common in my field (ancient history) to quote them with a shorthand title. For example, I'd like this work:
Hansen, Mogens Herman, and Thomas Heine Nielsen, eds. 2004. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
to appear as just "Inventory" in my footnotes (every specialist will know what I'm referring to), so that my references will look like "Inventory, 45" rather than "Hansen and Nielsen 2004, 45", which, for works like this, can be quite cumbersome and actually less clear.
Now, is it possible to tweak styles such as Chicago to force them to use the short title with sources marked as books? I put down "Inventory" in the short title field, but don't know how to actually use that field.
Thanks!
Hansen, Mogens Herman, and Thomas Heine Nielsen, eds. 2004. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
to appear as just "Inventory" in my footnotes (every specialist will know what I'm referring to), so that my references will look like "Inventory, 45" rather than "Hansen and Nielsen 2004, 45", which, for works like this, can be quite cumbersome and actually less clear.
Now, is it possible to tweak styles such as Chicago to force them to use the short title with sources marked as books? I put down "Inventory" in the short title field, but don't know how to actually use that field.
Thanks!
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and not "Hansen and Nielsen, 2004", so I'd think that's pretty clear? (It'll print "Hansen and Nielsen" for the immediately following citation -- what used to be ibid)
Then yes, it would be _possible_ to adjust a version of Chicago style do just print the short title for all books, but as with most things Chicago it's a bit involved. You can try yourself starting with https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step and we can help when you get stuck, but at least I won't have time to provide detailed step-by-steps.