Hi,

I am trying to customize a style, which I found in Zotero Style Database.

Basically, according to my guidelines, a book/article should be cited only by its author and the page number. However, when there are two or more books/articles from the same author in the bibliography, a citation field must also contain title/short title information in order to disambiguate the cited works of the same author.

I am trying to achieve this goal by using conditional disambiguate true argument under contributors-short macro. But it brings nothing. Short-title is not printed for the works of the same author.

Or should/can I maybe activate title-short field under Citation and deactivate it for the authors with sole works?

Any help will be appreciated.

Here is the relevant part of the code:

<macro name="contributors-short">
<group delimiter="/">
<names variable="author">
<name form="short" delimiter-precedes-et-al="never" delimiter-precedes-last="always" font-weight="bold" delimiter="/" initialize-with="."/>
<substitute>
<names variable="editor collection-editor director editorial-director" font-weight="bold"/>
<names variable="translator" font-weight="bold"/>
</substitute>
</names>
<choose>
<if disambiguate="true">
<text macro="title-short"/>
</if>
</choose>
</group>
</macro>

<citation et-al-min="4" et-al-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-names="true" disambiguate-add-givenname="true" givenname-disambiguation-rule="primary-name-with-initials">
<layout suffix="." delimiter="; ">
<choose>
<if match="any" position="subsequent">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="contributors-short"/>
<group delimiter="/">
<group delimiter=", ">
<!--text macro="title-short"/-->
<text macro="date-disambiguate"/>
<text macro="case-locator-subsequent"/>
</group>
<text macro="case-pinpoint-subsequent"/>
</group>
<choose>
<if match="none" type="legal_case">
<text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/>
</if>
</choose>
</group>
</if>
<else>
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="contributors-note"/>
<text macro="title-note" suffix=","/>
</group>
<text macro="description-note"/>
<text macro="container-title-note" suffix=","/>
<text macro="secondary-contributors-note"/>
<text macro="container-contributors-note"/>
</group>
<text macro="locators-note-join-with-space"/>
</group>
<text macro="locators-note-join-with-comma"/>
<text macro="collection-title"/>
<text macro="issue-note-join-with-comma"/>
</group>
<text macro="issue-note-join-with-space"/>
</group>
<text macro="locators-newspaper"/>
<text macro="point-locators-join-with-comma"/>
</group>
<text macro="point-locators-join-with-colon"/>
</group>
<text macro="access-note"/>
</group>
</else>
</choose>
</layout>
</citation>