Include original date of publication in citation

njarraud
Hello,

I am trying to include the original date of publication in citations. I saw a thread stating it works on Chicago 17 full note (it does not seem to work for me) but I actually would need it on citation, not end note and its reflexion in the bibliography obviously.
The goal is to have within the text (Zola 1894 [1995]) and avoid having some nonsense such as (Zola 1995)...
How can Zotero work it out ?
  • damnation
    If you tell us which style you're actually using, we can also help you. ;)
  • adamsmith
    Chicago author-date does this, for example; reverse to what you have though, you'd get (Zola [1894] 1995) -- that's in line with the manual.

    You need original-date: 1894 (exactly like this) in the Extra field for that to work.
  • njarraud
    @adamsmith Awesome, it does work indeed on the Chicago-author style! Thanks a lot for that. Nevertheless, it added a little a next to the date.
    (Zola [1894a] 1995) Do you know what that refers to?
  • damnation
    That is in order to disambiguate two citations from each other that have the same authors and year.
    Do you also have a Zola 1984b?

    See: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
  • njarraud
    Indeed I do have a b one.
    In this case I had it in 2 different libraries.
    Understood now.
    Thank you so much for your help, it was precious
  • francocrudi
    Hi!

    I've read about adding the original date to the Extra field, but it only works for some of the styles (e.g., Chicago). What can I do to add the original date in Elsevier - Harvard style?

    Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    Does Elsevier define anywhere if/how that should be used? We can add this to styles, but I'm quite reluctant to do so absent, at a minimum, examples in published work using that style, ideally prescription in the style guide/author information.
  • kevinwilson
    edited March 14, 2022
    Hi all,

    Apologies for jumping back on this thread but I thought it made more sense than starting a new one.

    I am having trouble with the guidance given in this, and other recent threads.

    For example, there's a (hypothetical) book with an original date and a reprint date. Let's say the reprint date is in the date field (2022). I then add this to the extra field:

    original-date: 1894

    Only the reprint date shows in the citation, whether I use APA, Chicago, Harvard, etc. Am I missing something?

    Thanks.
  • damnation
    This certainly works with APA. See:
    original-date example in Zotero
  • kevinwilson
    Thanks @damnation. It didn't work when I modified an existing item in my library but it did when I created a new one from scratch. Is this normal? I did exactly the same thing in the extra field both times. It works, so I'm not complaining.
  • damnation
    That could hint at a few issues. Duplicated items, disconnected item in your document etc. That means, you were maybe modifying an item that actually was not the item that was contained in your Word document.
  • adamsmith
    It didn't work when I modified an existing item in my library but it did when I created a new one from scratch. Is this normal?
    No, it's not. Likely something else going on depending on how you're testing this, but Zotero citation styles don't care when you add what information; the only thing that matters is what's in the metadata when the citation is generated.
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