Coding Guidance on Statute, Bill, Case, and Hearing

kristle
Due to the nature of our publications, our internal style is based on Chicago and Bluebook. (Chicago's legal citations are also based on Bluebook, but Bluebook has the more recent edition.) I am using basic Chicago footnote with bibliography as a base.

Creating styles for statute, bill, case, and hearing in bluebook style. Do you have any additional information on these types? Thanks in advance.
  • Codec
    The mappings from zotero are rather thin for these types.

    For a Hearing entry in zotero you will find
    Type is bill and book
    title => title
    Contributor => author
    Committee (not mapped)
    Place => Publisher-place
    Publisher => publisher
    # of Volumes -> number-of-volumes
    Document No (not mapped)
    Pages => page
    Legislative body (not mapped)
    Session (not mapped)
    Date => issued
    history (not mapped)

    For a bill
    Type is bill and book
    title => title
    sponsor => author
    contributor (not mapped)
    Bill no (not mapped)
    Code (not mapped)
    Code volume => volume
    Section (not mapped)
    Code pages => page
    Legislative body (not mapped)
    date => issued date
    accessed => accessed date

    For a statute
    Type is bill and book
    title => title
    author=> author
    contributor (not mapped)
    Code (not mapped)
    public law number (not mapped)
    pages => page
    section (not mapped)
    session (not mapped)
    history (not mapped)
    date enacted => issued date
    accessed => accessed date
  • kristle
    Thanks. Any tips on creating the mappings? It looks like you just edit the scripts...
  • Codec
    Well yes it needs adjustment to zotero's internals. Its probably best to lobby for such a change so future generations can benefit!
  • bdarcus
    Creating styles for statute, bill, case, and hearing in bluebook style. Do you have any additional information on these types?
    I'm really busy, but I've been promising forever to finish a Bluebook style. I'll try to get at last something rudimentary posted over the long weekend.

    Re: codec's reply, a few suggested mappings, using CSL variables (since i"m not sure the Zotero equivalents):

    Document No [number]
    Bill no [number]
    public law number [number]
    # e.g. all of the above are document numbers
    Code [container-title]
    # a code is really like a periodical
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