Upgrade Storagedisambiguate-add-year-suffix not working when data is "n.d." / "no date"-term
Hi all,
I essentially have the same problem described here in 2015, but I am afraid I have not managed to fix it so far: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/54741/scope-of-disambiguate-add-year-suffix
The situation: I have multiple sources with the same author and no date (multiple updated websites by the European Commission and other organizations) and I am required to use the MISQ citations style.
The problem:
While the disambiguation with suffixes works as intended for citations with years, e.g.:
...climate neutral and smart cities (DG RTD 2021b). The...
the same is not the case if there is no date, e.g.:
... web application by NetZeroCities (NetZeroCities n.d., n.d.). ...
So there is essentially disambiguation for these in-text citations, and I have been struggling with a fix. disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" is already included and works for entires with a year.
These are the relevant sections from the style:
#1 The year-issued macro
[...]
[...]
#2 The citation
[...]
[...]
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
I essentially have the same problem described here in 2015, but I am afraid I have not managed to fix it so far: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/54741/scope-of-disambiguate-add-year-suffix
The situation: I have multiple sources with the same author and no date (multiple updated websites by the European Commission and other organizations) and I am required to use the MISQ citations style.
The problem:
While the disambiguation with suffixes works as intended for citations with years, e.g.:
...climate neutral and smart cities (DG RTD 2021b). The...
the same is not the case if there is no date, e.g.:
... web application by NetZeroCities (NetZeroCities n.d., n.d.). ...
So there is essentially disambiguation for these in-text citations, and I have been struggling with a fix. disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" is already included and works for entires with a year.
These are the relevant sections from the style:
#1 The year-issued macro
[...]
[...]
#2 The citation
[...]
[...]
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
Can't speak to specifics since I can't see your code, but the basics are that you need to set the year-suffix explicitly for n.d. like
<text term="no date" form="short"/>
<text variable="year-suffix"/>
Note that once you set the year-suffix for n.d., you also need it for the date itself.
I think you are spot on (the code was pretty basic).
I added the section
<text variable="year-suffix"/>to the else section of the year-issued macro and now it does what I want!
If I may ask, why do I also need to add the year-suffix to the date itself? It seems like the disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" in the citation takes care of that and at first glance, nothing about seems broken after the change.