Upgrade StorageCiting a collection of documents
dstillman
Zotero Team
This discussion was created from comments split from: Item Types.
I want to cite an entire collection of documents ("The John Smith Family Archive") held by a national archive (State Archive of Finland).
What information, minimally should be included (for Chicago)? I assume Title is the name of the collection and "Location in Archive" is the locator identifying number ("1/1760/0")
Which other fields should be used that will display correctly in Chicago style?
For example...
Is the "Publisher" the name of the archive organization (State Archive of Finland)??
Or is the "Archive" the name of the archive organization (State Archive of Finland)?
The date field is designed for a single year, not a range (1940-1945). Work around?
In subsequent citations, I wish to refer to specific folders (e.g. "Folder 53-Finances"), within the larger collection. Do I change "page" to "folio" or to something else?
Many thanks,
Mel
Zotero has better support for individual archival documents than for collections (I think we'll get something for collections in the future, too, but less sure about the status there) That should work., yes.
The archive holding a manuscript should definitely got into the archive field, not the publisher field.
For date ranges you can use
Issued: 1940/1945in the extra field (which supports more complex date structures than the actual date field currently).I think I'd put folder info into a suffix in citations, so you don't get random acronyms like "folio" in front of it.
Mel