Upgrade StorageOther options for date (in press etc...)
Zotero doesn't recognise:
to appear
in press
submitted
in preparation etc....
in the date field. If I put these in it puts 0000 in the main view date field, and doesn't print a date when I output a reference.
Can we add support for this?
to appear
in press
submitted
in preparation etc....
in the date field. If I put these in it puts 0000 in the main view date field, and doesn't print a date when I output a reference.
Can we add support for this?
So you could then have:
date: 2008
status: forthcoming
... or:
date:
status: submitted
And splitting of this part of the problem from the other part then simplifies solving those issues too.
E.g. what's complex is trying to force a single text field to a wide range of stuff.
It might not work that well because dates are often rather vague in publishing (say "2008") but still worth thinking about perhaps. For example, say there is a field to select "forthcoming." Zotero could at least be smart enough to know that if there's a date that's obviously in the past, it gets switched off (so users don't have to maintain the proper value themselves).
I'm using Chicago Author-Date, and right now Zotero puts nothing for the date in the citation when the date field reads "in press". I wouldn't object to simply outputting the contents of the field if it's not a date; that would mean that my in line references would look like (Her & Him, forthcoming) or (Him & Her, in press) rather than the current (Him & Her) which just looks strange.
It seems that the easiest thing to do would be to leave unparsable date fields alone as plain text?
in the Bibliography Section of my csl I put:
<text macro="contributors" suffix=". "/><text macro="date" suffix=". "/>
<text macro="day-month" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=". "/>
instead of
<text macro="contributors" suffix=". "/><text macro="date" suffix=". "/>
Then, when I write "forthcoming" in the field "Date" of Zotero, I get the word "Forthcoming" in my bibliography, instead of the date.
I do not know how or why this works. But it works!
Maybe this hack is going to be useful also to others.
I see the ticket on this hasn't been active for a while - can I just add my own request that you make it possible to enter dates as strings, such as "in press", if that's as easy as it seems? While adding all sorts of fancy options such as 'status' and approximate dates might be nice in the long term, there are plenty of cases where a string will work fine and it would be a big help in the meantime. And could you do this for version 1.0 as well, please?
Meanwhile, in case anyone else is having this problem, I've found a fairly obvious, if somewhat ungainly, way around it: just add " (in press). " or " (forthcoming). " or whatever before the title:
e.g. Title:
(in press). Prediction and embodiment in dialogue
(you need the space before the parentheses for some reason) - and it comes out as:
Pickering, M. J., & Garrod, S. (in press). Prediction and embodiment in dialogue. European Journal of Social Psychology.
- which I'm pretty sure is APA standard, though I haven't checked in the manual.
http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/APA14.html
http://media.library.ku.edu.tr/refpgs/sociology/style_apa.htm
Not restricting the field content might be problematic if you'd want to localize the status-string, but I'm not sure whether that is really important anyway.
- in preparation (I have only started the paper)
- with co-authors (or advisor or corporate approval; now someone else's problem)
- submitted
- accepted
- I have additional details about the publication (final proofs, a DOI, or vol/iss), but not all of them
Depending on who is making the claim, "in press" can mean the last point ("it is at the printer"), one of the last two points, or even one of the last three points ("it is at the publisher"). Similarly, I have seen "forthcoming" used either as a synonym (as we have many fewer actual presses these days) or (and I agree this is inaccurate) really as any of the above ("I know I'll just publish this somewhere sometime").The difference between "in print" and "forthcoming" seems to be the degree of information that's known. Everytime I've seen "in print" the citation actually had a date often even an issue number, but in print was added because the actual publication was in the future.
Forthcoming, on the other hand, usually doesn't have a date yet, or at least no precise date.
as in
Joe Nunes (marketing) has a paper in print (with Drèze, Xavier), (2009). “Feeling Superior: The Impact of Loyalty Program Structure on Consumers’ Perception of Status,” April 2009 issue of Journal of Consumer Research.
vs.
"Testing Portfolio Efficiency with Conditioning Information," 2008, with Andrew F. Siegel, Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).
(these are from here: http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty-and-research/recent-publications-04-09.htm - I didn't find anything official on this, sorry).