Bibliography Question--Managing multiple books by the same author

punk · 2025-10-26T18:39:09+00:00

Two questions regarding bibliographies:

1. I have multiple texts by the same author with the same year that are different volumes. In the bib (and in the citations in the doc) they are given dates of 1980a, 1980b, 1980c etc, but the volumes are out of order (eg, Vol 5 is 1980a, Vol 1 is 1980b, Vol 2 is 1980c). I've completed the "volume" field in the book info. Does anyone know if there is a way to manage this?

2. Less important, but I'd also like a line instead of their name repeated on second and subsequent entries. I've been managing this manually, but does anyone know if there is a setting for it?

damnation · 2025-10-26T19:41:16+00:00

For both of those things you can modify a given citation style.
For the first issue, add the "volume" as a variable to sort the bibliography after the title.
Ffor the second issue, you wan to set "subsequent-author-substitute" on "bibliography".
See: https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html and https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

adamsmith · 2025-10-27T03:04:05+00:00

We do have a whole bunch of styles that do 2. -- e.g. all the Chicago 18 variants labelled as "classic" on https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=Chicago

punk · 2025-10-28T00:59:42+00:00

Thank you both!

The styles are great (though I'm now struggling a little with the captilisation formats--but knowing there are so many styles to try is very helpful). Thank you @adamsmith!

punk · 2025-10-28T04:09:19+00:00

Do you know if there is a style that doesn't independently capitalise letters in titles as well as "subsequent author"? (My volume dates are out of order, so that's redundant now).