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Referencing with EU Style Using Zotero

Referencing a book

Referencing a book


A book

In-text citation

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (Butcher et al., 2006).

Reference in the bibliography

Butcher, J., Drake, C. and Leach, M. (2006), Butcher’s Copy-editing – The Cambridge handbook for editors, copy-editors and proofreaders, 4th edition, Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482106.

 
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero


A book with a corporate author

In-text citation

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (European Commission: Directorate General for Communication, 2023).

Reference in the bibliography

European Commission: Directorate General for Communication (2023), A Short Guide to the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, https://doi.org/10.2775/877284.

 
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero


A book with editors as main creators

In-text citation

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit (Zamora et al., 1995).

Reference in the bibliography

Zamora, L. P. and Faris, W. B. (eds) (1995), Magical realism – Theory, history, community, Duke University Press, Durham.

 
Bibliographic metadata in Zotero

Books or other complete monographs

Zotero 'Item Type' – 'Book'.

Creator roles (in order of preference as main creator): ‘Author’, ‘Editor’, ‘Translator’, ‘Series Editor’ and ‘Contributor’.

Zotero fields

Bibliographic element

Status

observations

Author (or other)

Creator

Required if…

... applicable

Title

Title

Required

Edition

Number of edition

Required if…

… the edition is not the first

Place

Place of publication

Optional

Publisher

Publisher

Required

Date

Date of publication

Required

only the year is required

Short title

Title

Optional

this field will be used to identify the document in in-text citations if no creators are present

URL

Digital locator

Required if…

... applicable

Call Number

Internal number

Optional

it can be used to add an internal reference number

Extra

[can assume several]

Optional

can be used to add additional bibliographic elements that are not included by default, by using specific tags (e.g., doi:)