Citation in a citation

simonlangley
Is it possible to include a citation in another citation? For example referring to referring to various of essays in a book without having to include the full description of the book each time. In bibtex I can get this effect:

[4] Some Misunderstandings of Hume, T. E. Jessop, pp35-52 in [23]
[5] Hume's Two Definitions of "Cause", J. A. Robinson, pp129-147 in [23]

[23] Hume, ed V. C. Chappell, Macmillan etc ...

Is it possible in Zotero?

PS It's great anyway ...
  • ajlyon
    I think that legal styles do this sort of thing. I have no idea how they do it, but support for them is one of the central improvements in style support for Zotero 2.1 (now in beta).
  • fbennett
    edited October 10, 2010
    Unfortunately, these nested cites are a tricky problem that remains to be solved. For legal citations, the citeproc-js processor is able to collapse a series of cites referring to the same case (published in different reporters) into a single "sparse" cite that contains the essential details of each. The approach used there would be touch to control for this use case; there really needs to be a directional hint of the relationship between the two references, recorded in the application (Zotero), made available to the CSL processor. The style(s) would then need some extra bits and pieces to tell the processor how to splice them together.

    You never know, but a solution probably lies beyond Zotero 2.1.

    [Edit: This link, just in case: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/11788/quoted-in/#Item_4]

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