Citing references with specifications other than page numbers

hbgseminarian · April 27, 2020

Hello!

I'm trying to cite a few things that have more obscure specifications than page numbers. For example, when I'm citing the Code of Canon Law I want to cite things with reference to their canon number, rather than page number (e.g. the footnote should say "Code of Canon Law", can. 44). I see that there is a drop-down menu to select citations other than "page", like "section", "paragraph", etc., but is there a way to cite things like canons that are not in this menu?

Thanks for your help!

bwiernik · April 27, 2020

canon isn’t currently available, but you can add this to the suffix field: can. 44

djross3 · April 27, 2020

You can manually add anything you would like as a suffix, but those are the only automated options.

See also, for the issue of combinations:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/81913/specify-volume-page-in-cite-does-zotero-permit-only-one-locator#latest

hbgseminarian · April 28, 2020

Oh okay thank you, I didn't know what the prefix and suffix fields did. I'm assuming they just add something to the beginning or end. Actually I also tried typing can. 5 manually into the page field and that seems to work if I want to substitute it where the page number would go. Thanks again!

djross3 · April 29, 2020

(Be careful about using "page" in case you use a style with an abbreviation like "p." or any other formatting that might make that look strange with another abbreviation. But yes, in general that can work.)

hbgseminarian · April 29, 2020

Gotcha, okay that's good to know