Journal Special Issues

[adam3smith]

Most more elaborate styles have require requirements for special issues of journals and articles in special issues. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9985/citing-a-specil-issue-of-a-journal-in-apa-style/

Specifically: APA: Beasley, E. (Ed.). (2001). The new logic [Special issue]. Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, 9(6).

MLA: Burgess, Anthony. “Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene.” Literature and Society. Spec. issue of Journal of Contemporary History 2.2 (1967): 93-99. Print.

CMoS: Good, Thomas L., ed. “Non-Subject-Matter Outcomes of Schooling.” Special issue, Elementary School Journal 99, no. 5 (1999).

CMoS for an article in a special issue: Sassler, Sharon, “Learning to Be an ‘American Lady’? Ethnic Variation in Daughters’ Pursuits in the Early 1900s,” in “Emergent and Reconfigured Forms of Family Life,” ed. Lora Bex Lempert and Marjorie L. DeVault, special issue, Gender and Society 14, no. 1 (2000): 201–202.

Journal of Marketing for an Article in a special issue: Simonson, Itamar, Allen M. Weiss, and Shantanu Dutta (1999), “Marketing in Technology- Intensive Markets: Toward a Conceptual Framework,” Journal of Marketing, 63 (Special Issue), 78–91.

I don't have a good proposal on how to do this, but we should at least think about it - I don't see any obvious strategy.

[fbennett]

collection-title?

The style testing framework might have a role here, as styles get down to this level of refinement.

[rmzelle]

Couldn't you just use a conditional to test whether "issue" is non-numeric? (for localization, should we also add a "special" or "special issue" term?)

For APA, see also http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/05/citing-a-special-issue-or-special-section-in-apa-style.html (apparently there are both special issues and special section)

[adam3smith]

see also http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/26945/edited-special-issue-of-a-journal/#Item_1 @rmzelle - no, test for non-numeric won't do, as per the examples above, special issues typically also have a numeric issue number.

[gracile-fr]

In #54, @adam3smith wrote:

Proposal: add a field "Volume Title" to Book and Book Section, map it to new CSL variable "volume-title" This could be combined with #36 - if we create a field "Issue Title" we can use that as an indicator of a special issue and map it to the same volume-title CSL variable.

I agree that a field "Issue Title"/issueTitle mapped to CSL volume-title would be very useful. The only difficulty is that some journals gives an Issue Title to most of their issues, without them being "special" issues at all. If you just need to record the fact that's an issue is "special", I think a new field "Type"/issueType, mapped to CSL genre could be the solution (probably for journalArticle, magazineArticle and newspaperArticle)

@fbennett: CSL var collection-title (atm, in zotero: "Series" and "Series Title") is better for handling things as "New Series", which is not at the issue level (the series that the journal belongs to).

[edited for clarity]

[PietroLiuzzo]

We would also like to have this feature if possible.

HLCES: Binyam Sisay Mendisu and J. Bondi Johannessen 2016. Multilingual Ethiopia: Linguistic Challenges and Capacity Building Efforts, eds Binyam Sisay Mendisu and J. Bondi Johannessen (Oslo: University of Oslo, 2016 = Oslo Studies in Language, 8/1 (2016)).

[fgnievinski]

hi. did anything come out of this, please?

[bwiernik]

@adam3smith @bdarcus How do databases and translators handle things like "New Series"? Just as part of the journal title/book series title? It seems to me like these are indexed as completely different publications/book series (e.g., different ISSNs), so it feels like the most appropriate method would be to include this information as part of the journal/book series title (in contradiction to Chicago/MHRA's special rules about formatting "new series" and similar phrases).

That said, there was this discussion a few years back on storing such information in collection-title and classifying that variable as a number: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/35399/correct-fields-for-entering-a-journal-series/

What do you think nowadays?

[denismaier]

How do databases and translators handle things like "New Series"? Just as part of the journal title/book series title? It seems to me like these are indexed as completely different publications/book series (e.g., different ISSNs), so it feels like the most appropriate method would be to include this information as part of the journal/book series title (in contradiction to Chicago/MHRA's special rules about formatting "new series" and similar phrases).

Our library catalogue indexes them as different publications and the "New series" part is added to the title or to the subtitle (one example, another)

[denismaier]

@bwiernik Do you oversee what still needs to be done/decided here?

[bwiernik]

Not sure on the best solution yet. Let’s make a new issue on evolution or schema. For Zotero’s end this will just be a periodical item or an article-journal item.

[denismaier]

I've created a new issue on evolution. Can we then add the Zotero label here?