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Move "pages" to "numPages" in Report #38

Open avram opened 13 years ago

avram commented 13 years ago

Since reports are generally not a part of something, but rather a complete publication, the current "pages" field should be replaced with a "numPages" field, preserving the existing content.

See http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15636/3/changes-to-fields-and-item-types-for-zotero-22/

avram commented 13 years ago

My guess is that the original choice of "pages" instead of "numPages" was just an oversight.

rmzelle commented 13 years ago

You're sure there aren't any reports that are published in a serial format, which would require the "pages" field?

avram commented 13 years ago

Reports that are published in a serial format with multiple reports per issuance of the serial, and hence pagination within the issue? There are plenty of reports that are members of series, but I don't know of them ever being publications within a larger unit with its own pagination. That sounds more like a journal article...

bwiernik commented 4 years ago

See here for an example of a report published in a series. Such cases are still almost always paginated by issue, so "numPages" is more appropriate.

A bigger issue is that sometimes "Report" might be used to cite an authored chapter within a larger edited report. So, if there is a container-title, pages would be needed to indicate the page range within the larger report. This would probably be best handled with a new "Report Section" type in Zotero, mapped to CSL report and including "Report title" (container-title) fields.