Citing multiple editions of one text (Chicago notes style)

peter.park.nelson
I have found that when inserting citations to two editions of the same text in a Chicago "notes and bibliography" formatted document, Zotero does not distinguish between editions after the first citations. In other words, each edition is identified correctly in the full note the first time it is cited, but subsequent citations using the short title do not include the edition number. This makes the page numbers in the citations useless, as the reader cannot tell which edition is being referenced.

Can anything be done to address this issue?
  • adamsmith
    maybe - I'm actually not sure but Zotero 2.1 might allow this - could you find out how this should look?
  • fbennett
    @adamsmith: Yes, the <if disambiguate="true"> conditional should work in 2.1.

    @peter.park.nelson: If you can provide an example citation that shows how the edition should appear in subsequent citations where it is required, we may be able to extend the style to handle this correctly.
  • adamsmith
    Thanks Frank - yes, I know the conditional on disambiguation works, but that might not be enough: If different situations require different steps for disambiguation (e.g. in one case add publication year, in another case edition number) I don't think we can necessarily handle this. I really hope that's not the case, but didn't want to overpromise.
  • fbennett
    True, and this hasn't yet been used in the wild. But I think that alternative forms for other types will fall into place naturally. The one thing that we might fall down on is fallbacks -- disambiguate="true" is a one-shot deal within the scope of a given condition statement.
  • peter.park.nelson
    edited April 10, 2011
    @fbennett: Here is an example.

    NB: I don't see any explicit specification in the current Chicago Manual for the format of the edition in subsequent notes, so I'm assuming here that it should follow the short title and be separated by a comma, this being close to the format for first citations.

    Are there any Chicago experts who know for sure how this has been handled by the press?

    If the two initial citations are:
    1. Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 3rd ed. (Longman, 1988), 11.
    2. Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 6th ed. (Longman, 1996), 22.

    Then the subsequent citations should look like:
    3. Acuña, Occupied America, 3rd ed., 33.
    4. Acuña, Occupied America, 6th ed., 44.
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