Correcting and expanding imported info

AC22885
I'm new to Zotero and I'm finding nothing that explains how I correct automatically imported info and expand it so that Bibliographic references will be correct. I see how you might correct spelling errors. I can see too how you might add some additional fields, if your item type allows them. But the item types seem quite restrictive. The particular issue I have is with the following work, which needs to be cited using Chicago with footnotes. With the imported info Zotero is citing it as follows:

Jean-Hugues Barthelemy. 'Glossary:Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon'. In Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

It should really be:

Barthelemy, Jean-Hugues "Glossary:Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon." Translated by Arne De Boever. In Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, edited by Arne De Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe and Ashley Woodward, 203-31. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

How do I get Zotero to do what it needs to do?
  • adamsmith
    This seems straightforward? You just add editors and a page range. (see also https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/edited_volumes_and_book_chapters )

    Generally, metadata for book chapters is often poor, so you should expect to have to manually correct it in Zotero.
  • AC22885
    Adam, thank you so much for this. I was able to add details for the translator too. The only thing is Zotero adds 'translated by...' after the book title and the list of editors, when really it should be after the chapter name - it's the chapter that is translated rather than the whole book. Is the thing just to correct this in the bibliography itself? Or do you know if there is a way to get Zotero to insert it where it should be?
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