Abbreviations of Page Number Ranges

noahkaye
I can't figure this out, please help. I know that I should put full ranges into Zotero so that the entries will work with/without citation styles that do/don't abbreviate page number ranges, but I want to see the automatic abbreviations working, and I don't. When I put a full range in, e.g., 123-128, then click on any Chicago Style, I am not seeing 123-28, but rather it remains 123-128. I would love to go into the style editor and modify this, but I am not sure where to change what. Thank you.
  • adamsmith
    This should work. Could you tell us exactly where you're looking/how you're generating these citations?
  • noahkaye
    Great. I am trying both in my Web Library, as well as in the desktop client (right-clicking, generate bibliography from item, etc.).

    Here is my example:

    Sosin, J. D. “Two Attic Endowments.” Zeitschift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 138 (2002): 123–128.

    That was generated from Web Library, selecting Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note).

    If I do, Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (note), same thing;

    Sosin, J. D. “Two Attic Endowments.” Zeitschift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 138 (2002): 123–128.

    Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (author-date), same thing:

    Sosin, J. D. 2002. “Two Attic Endowments.” Zeitschift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 138: 123–128.

    -- Page range just doesn't seem to abbreviate to 123-28, no matter what I do...





  • bwiernik
    edited June 1, 2020
    @adamsmith @dstillman I can replicate this if the pages are delimited in the item data by an en dash. If I switch the library data to have a hyphen, it abbreviates the page numbers (and substitutes an en dash) correctly. I think this is a citeproc-js issue?
  • adamsmith
    I'd think this is citeproc-js, yes
  • bwiernik
    @noahkaye You can fix this immediately by entering a hyphen in the page field instead of an en dash.
  • adamsmith
    And note that Zotero will re-convert this to an en-dash for page ranges where appropriate (i.e. almost everywhere).
  • noahkaye
    OMG, amazing - my other burning question was about en-dashes, and whether I need to keep manually inserting them (I guess not!) into Zotero. Thanks so much.
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