A mini guide to Sort Bibliography by Reference Type

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  • Why not just use the actual CSL type “interview”?
  • I want to differentiate between Interviews which I have led myself and Interviews by other scholars which have been published.
  • Hello,

    I didn't actually succeed in getting the bibliography I wanted following your suggestions above, but found this useful (especially: functioning!) way to separate the primary from the secondary bibliography in Zotero: https://gouldguides.carleton.edu/zotero/sort-by-cateogory
    However, I would like for this to work in the “short title subsequent”-Chicago Style I'm using (Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note, short title subsequent)(2020-04-26 18:22:50)). Is there already such a style available or how can I safely edit one of these two styles? I have absolutely no experience with programming/writing codes and wouldn't want to completely ruin one of these styles!

    Thank you very much!
  • @iverbear Please start a new thread with your question saying exactly what you want to do
  • Dear @adamsmith thanks for your great input.

    I've done what you suggested earlier in this thread ' June 10, 2012 edited March 9, 2017' -- I tried to create a macro to sort bibliography.

    I use ZOTERO+JURISM (because im a law academic)

    I am using JM OSCOLA Style.

    I incorporated your macro paying attention to put it in the right place, ie. mutatis mutandis, because I know you were basing your suggestion on a Chigago style.

    I saved and implemented and changed style and it's the right style.

    But when I click on ADD/EDIT BILIOGRAPHY on ZOTERO TAB in MSWORD - it generates a bibliography as though I didn't add anything ie. not sorted.

    by the way: what does sort-tab mean? does this mean I should have a sort option somewhere or is the sorted biblio supposed to be generated automatically?

    MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!
  • @bwiernik any suggestions? re above? please?
  • Did you change the style title and id after editing, install your new style in Jurism, and then select that in your document?
  • i have always been using the normal zotero but i came across that in Juris M was recommended in legal studies for both UK and US, i cant see to make it adopt the UK style followed with oscola what am i doing wrong?
  • I believe it will be really helpful if Zotero provides a general option within program to categorize bibliography references according to all available types (books, book sections, journals, reports, etc...). Users can then easily combine some types if needed or re-order the categories.
    Thanks for the great software
  • Hi all,
    I am trying to do pretty much exactly what toni50 attempted in 2012 : edit my Zotero style to generate a bibliography which sorts items by reference type.
    I've tried to modify my style using @adamsmith 's code, but it does not seem to work. The order of the references in the bibliography seem random (and not sorted by reference type). Here is the code I'm using : https://gist.github.com/MVllt/829edd339bd88862b4b9d93bda364d66
    Could anyone have a look and let me know if I could change something to make it work?
    (Sorry if it's obvious or unclear, I don't know how to code!)
    Thanks for your help. :)
  • Conceptually this seems right, but you are using all sorts of non-existing labels for item types. See here for the right ones: https://pobrien333.github.io/zot2csl/
  • I changed them for the right ones and it worked, thank you so much @adamsmith !
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