Upgrade StorageInputting Hijri Dates in Mendeley: How Do I do this?
Dear all,
My thesis cites numerous Arabic works which's year of publication uses the Hijri calendar (I also use numerous works using the Gregorian calendar). Normally I would type Gregorian years the way we usually do (e.g. 2000), and the Hijri years with an H at the end (e.g. 1440 H).
However, I cannot input the H into the Year in Mendeley. It seems that the Year space is programmed to only accept numbers. I cannot just convert the Hijri years to Gregorian calendar, because the Arabic works usually do not mention the specific date of publication (the year only).
So I now have footnotes referring to works published in 1430. I meant in Hijri (equivalent to 2008-2009 in Gregorian), but it now looks like Im looking at ancient manuscripts.
Any suggestions?
My thesis cites numerous Arabic works which's year of publication uses the Hijri calendar (I also use numerous works using the Gregorian calendar). Normally I would type Gregorian years the way we usually do (e.g. 2000), and the Hijri years with an H at the end (e.g. 1440 H).
However, I cannot input the H into the Year in Mendeley. It seems that the Year space is programmed to only accept numbers. I cannot just convert the Hijri years to Gregorian calendar, because the Arabic works usually do not mention the specific date of publication (the year only).
So I now have footnotes referring to works published in 1430. I meant in Hijri (equivalent to 2008-2009 in Gregorian), but it now looks like Im looking at ancient manuscripts.
Any suggestions?
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dstillmanAs we've said before, you need to ask Mendeley support for help with using Mendeley. Or you can switch to Zotero and ask all the questions you want here.