Original Date Field – Two or Multiple Dates?

mportal100
Hello,

I am so excited about the Original Date field, but was curious if there was any syntax I need to use to indicate two publication dates in this field – for example, if the book being cited is really a collection of two books published in different years. Consider the following case:

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Any guidance would be helpful – I've experimented with "and" "," ";" "/" and whenever the citation comes out it inevitably produces the following:

Descartes, René. Discourse on Method; and, Meditations on First Philosophy. Translated by Donald A. Cress. 1637. 4th ed. Hackett Publishing Company, 1998.

In which the first date of the two (1637) is listed.

Is this perhaps beyond the proper use of the app? Any guidance? Thank you!!
  • damnation
    You'll need to use the extra field like so:
    original-date: "1649 and 1662"
  • mportal100
    Hi damnation, thank you! Is there any way to do this in the field "Original Date"? I loved the simplicity of just having that there – maybe I should use that field in all instances where there is only one date to include?

    Also, to clarify, in the extra field I should include the quotation marks, yes?

    Thank you!
  • damnation
    Gotta copy the whole line.
    No, the normal field won't work.
  • mportal100
    Bummer about the normal field, but thank you for the clarification and guidance!!
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    We're updating it to support quoted strings in the real date fields in a future version.
  • bwiernik
    edited 8 days ago
    @dstillman Would expanded parsing (date ranges, seasons, uncertain, BCE dates—the features supported by the citeproc-js parser) also be possible?
  • adamsmith
    Yeah, I agree -- it'd be great if we could add support for the ISO 8601 syntax
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Yes, expanded date parsing is already done for Zotero 11. (We later replaced edtf.js replaced with a simpler parser).

    We'll announce when it's in a beta.
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