COMS 17th edition

ttulcin · November 7, 2019

Your citation format for Letter is not correct per COMS 17th edition. There should also be an option for letter in a published collection. See sec. 14.111. Please update.
Thanks.

adamsmith · November 8, 2019

Given that you can cite multiple letters from the same book but CMoS lists only the book in the bibliography (and Zotero can't do that in principle), I'd just treat these as books and then add the specific letter as a prefix. This isn't 100% -- it'll include the author name twice -- but it's probably the best that's reasonably possible

ttulcin · November 11, 2019

Thanks. I treated it as a selection in a book, but ended up adding it manually.

afreedm1 · October 11, 2022

Bumping this up: when can Zotero add a type for letters in published collections (which is in CMOS 17) or a way to add book info to the letter type?

adamsmith · October 11, 2022

I don't think this is on the medium-term horizon. It's a huge mess conceptually for an edge case that can be pretty closely approximated with the existing style.