Red. by

renewasoiaf
Hello Zoteros,

I added a series editor to one of my entries. And now it says in the bibliography "Red. by .."
Is that correct? Red. stands for redacted, no? Doesn't this sound more like a censorship had been done to the publication than someone overseeing the series editing?
First I thought, it might be a German/English mix-up, because in German a "Redakteur" is an editor, but the only translation for redacting, I could find was "censoring".

Maybe someone can explain it to me, why it's correct. Or maybe it's an error, like I suspect?

Kind regards
  • bwiernik
    What style are you using and what language is your bibliography set to?
  • renewasoiaf
    Thank you for the reply @bwiernik

    This is my biblatex entry:

    \usepackage[
    autolang=other,
    backend=biber,
    style=numeric,
    defernumbers=true,
    autocite=superscript,
    giveninits=false,
    uniquename=false,
    language=english
    ]{biblatex}

    I thought it might be just set to German at first, but it already says "by", so.. Idk
  • bwiernik
    If you’re using BibLaTeX, citation formatting is controlled by BibLaTeX, not Zotero and you will need to ask for help on a BibLaTeX forum.

    Zotero uses CSL (citation style language) to format its citations. You can use the citation-style-language package to use CSL styles in LaTeX, or if you’re using markdown/pandoc, you can use CSL styles directly to handle your citations.
  • renewasoiaf
    ah, yeah, that makes sense. sorry for inconvenience
  • renewasoiaf
    Here is my current Latex work-around. I put this in the preamble:

    \DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{
    byredactor = {Ser\adddot\ ed\adddot\ by},
    redactor = {Ser\adddot\ ed\adddot},
    }

    This changes the "Red. by" to "Ser. ed. by" in the bibliography. This way I can still use the Series Editor role in Zotero and it does the "fix" for all entries.

    But I still think this is an Zotero "issue". I'm fairly certain it's Zotero who assigns "editora" (the ser. ed. name), and "editoratype = {redactor}" (the redactor type).

    Redactor seems to be an old term for editor, but as I stated above it's missleading.
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