Different behaviour according to publication date?

NMonteix · March 1, 2019

Is there a way to render in CSL a different behaviour according to the publication date?
For instance, here, the guidelines say "Publishers’ names are always omitted, exception made for the description of primary sources and for all books published before year 1800".
Can it be rendered?

bwiernik · March 1, 2019

No, not exactly. What you could do is to use the variables “original-publisher” and “original-publisher-place” to stand in for publishers to very old materials.

NMonteix · March 1, 2019

Thanks for your answer.
Though, if I am not wrong (or if I am not looking at the wrong place), Zotero does not accept (yet?) the CSL variable "original-publisher"?

bwiernik · March 1, 2019

You can add any CSL variable to Extra like this:
Original publisher: Publisher name
Original publisher place: New York

NMonteix · March 1, 2019

Great!
Thanks

bwiernik · March 1, 2019

See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/item_types_and_fields#citing_fields_from_extra for more details