bugs in zotero support for letters and other archival sources
Chicago "note without bibliography" style exports letters and manuscripts incorrectly: It omits all archival information (location in archive and repository), type of manuscript/letter, and recipient for letters. Manuscript titles should be in quotation marks; they are not.
For a letter, I should get:
1. Mark J. Woods to William E. Harkness, memorandum, September 15, 1923, box 1, folder 3, EPHJ Mss.
Instead I get:
1. Mark J. Woods, September 15, 1923.
For a manuscript, I should get:
1. J. Andrew White, “Radiophone Broadcasting of Dempsey-Carpentier Fight on July 2, 1921,” typescript, New York, July 14, 1921, series 135 box 532, GHC Mss., 3.
Instead I get:
1. J. Andrew White, Radiophone Broadcasting of Dempsey-Carpentier Fight on July 2, 1921 (New York, 1921), 3.
This makes Zotero pretty much useless for citing either item type. If there is a way for me to fix this myself in Zotero I am happy to do it for the Chicago style.
For a letter, I should get:
1. Mark J. Woods to William E. Harkness, memorandum, September 15, 1923, box 1, folder 3, EPHJ Mss.
Instead I get:
1. Mark J. Woods, September 15, 1923.
For a manuscript, I should get:
1. J. Andrew White, “Radiophone Broadcasting of Dempsey-Carpentier Fight on July 2, 1921,” typescript, New York, July 14, 1921, series 135 box 532, GHC Mss., 3.
Instead I get:
1. J. Andrew White, Radiophone Broadcasting of Dempsey-Carpentier Fight on July 2, 1921 (New York, 1921), 3.
This makes Zotero pretty much useless for citing either item type. If there is a way for me to fix this myself in Zotero I am happy to do it for the Chicago style.
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Ideally, journals should converge on an international standards rather than the current babel-like situation.
The problem with the formatting of manuscripts isn't really the style; more how Zotero currently implements CSL. But both CSL and the Zotero formatting engine are in the process of being updated, so hopefully we'll get that fixed along the way.
I tried to remake the ISO 690(-2)... see this:
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/view_product.php.en?id=123
Post comments, please.
For developers: I have found out, there is a bug - Zotero doesn't map the number-of-pages variable.
Petr
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/10565/
https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/5475
Although I havent applied the patch, I trust you :) Can you update also http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/csl_syntax_summary#variables and especially chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul so I can test it, please.
Petr