Does Zotero do literary works?
Hi,
How would one enter a work such as a short story, poem or play/screenplay into Zotero?
Thanks,
Callista
How would one enter a work such as a short story, poem or play/screenplay into Zotero?
Thanks,
Callista
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Author, Title book, in SameAuthor, Complete Works 8, etc. etc.
If I use book section for Title book, I'll have "Title book" in a bibliography.
The solution shoud difference between "book in book" and "section book", because I want to have commas in chapters.
Mihai
I guess it's not easy to do, but it would be awesome to have possibility to hierarchically manage references and "sub-references" to cite complete works. For example, I would like to have three different references for 1) a certain book included in complete works 2) the volume of the complete works in which is the book 3) the complete works, and then I could link them correctly so that Zotero knows the hierarchy between those 3 elements. But hrm, I guess there is most probably a better way to deal with this...
Anyone else having trouble to manage complete works in Zotero? Any tips?
Thanks in advance.
I'd use "series" for complete works so far - that seems about right, no?
About using "series" for complete works, I don't know. I'm using Zotero in french (dealing with only french references, and also my first language is french, so I apologize if this is just a language problem...), and I thought that the "series" field was for what we call in french a "collection" (like a book serie, sub-category of a publisher's catalogue... I don't know how to explain). For example, the complete works I'm working with are published by Gallimard, in a "collection" called "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade". If I put, say, as book-title, "Works I", and as serie "Complete works", I don't know where I'm supposed to put the "collection", in my case "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade"?
Or you meant writing individual work title under book-title, then "Works I" under series? In any way I seem to be short of one field to manage the information I want.
But I'm quite new to Zotero (and references managing software in general) so it's quite possible that I don't totally understand yet how to manage correctly my library... Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it.
For the short story "Taras Bul'ba", part of the book Mirgorod, published in the collected works of Gogol' entitled Sobranie sochinenii v semi tomakh, in volume 2 of the collected works, I get:
N. V. Gogol', “Taras Bul'ba,” in Mirgorod, Sobranie sochinenii v semi tomakh 2 (Moskva: Izd-vo Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1966), 34-164.
I would prefer to get:
N. V. Gogol', “Taras Bul'ba,” in Mirgorod in Sobranie sochinenii v semi tomakh vol. 2 (Moskva: Izd-vo Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1966), 34-164.
Series doesn't provide correct handling, since it is not treated as a title by the styles, so it doesn't get italics. Also, the editor of a collected works would then be entered as Series Editor, which is usually not included by styles, while it probably should be included for the editor of a collected work, since it's approximately equivalent to the editor of a book.
2.0 is feature frozen until the final release - that should happen relatively soon.
2.1 will include the implementation of csl 1.0 which will bring major advances in what is possible citation-wise (especially, but not only, for international, legal, and literary scholars), but that will take considerable effort.
Then there are a whole bunch of other outstanding requests that have also been long requested, perhaps most urgently of all duplicate detection.
So from my informed-observer point of view I'd say your time frame is - patience. This is not to say that I wouldn't like to see the feature sooner rather than later, but anything else seems unrealistic.