# contributor

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [December 6, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391 "2007-12-06T13:38:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![nicturcan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nicturcan](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/nicturcan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391/1 "2007-12-06T13:38:01Z")

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Hello,  
Wich is the term from schema for the “contributor”? How can I use in my  
style the term “contributor”. Have you a very short example?  
Thank you,  
Nicolae

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391/2 "2007-12-06T13:56:15Z")

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You can’t. It’s too vague to be workable.

Bruce

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**Author:** ![nicturcan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nicturcan](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/nicturcan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391/3 "2007-12-06T14:13:56Z")

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Bruce D’Arcus wrote:

> > Hello,  
> > Wich is the term from schema for the “contributor”? How can I use in my  
> > style the term “contributor”.
> 
> You can’t. It’s too vague to be workable.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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How then have:

_Author1_, “Foreword or Afterword”, in _AUTHOR2 (contributor???)_,  
/Title of book/, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002, pp. 50-55.

With “book section” in Zotero, if I work with 2 authors I obtain  
Author1, AUTHOR2, “Foreword and Afterword”, in /Title of book/…  
Can it no separates the 2 authors, the author of foreword and the author  
of book? What variable can I use for author of book (author2/contributor  
in my example)?

Nicolae

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**Author:** ![Julian\_Onions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Julian\_Onions](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Julian_Onions)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391/4 "2007-12-06T14:21:54Z")

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> _Author1_, “Foreword or Afterword”, in _AUTHOR2 (contributor???)_,  
> /Title of book/, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002, pp. 50-55.

Author 1 is the author  
Author 2 is the editor usually.

Julian.

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**Author:** ![nicturcan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nicturcan](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/nicturcan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391/5 "2007-12-06T14:36:30Z")

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Julian Onions wrote:

> ```
> *Author1*, "Foreword or Afterword", in *AUTHOR2 (contributor???)*,
> /Title of book/, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002, pp. 50-55. 
> 
> ```
> 
> Author 1 is the author  
> Author 2 is the editor usually.
> 
> Julian.
> 
> * * *
> 
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> xbiblio-devel mailing list  
> [xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net](mailto:xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net)  
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Thank you, Julian. But if he isn’t editor? I don’t want to have (ed.)  
after the name.  
For example, I have a poet (author), and an author of afterword (not  
editor). I want to cite the text of this second author. How can I do that?

SecondAuthor, “Title of his afterword”, in AuthorPoet, /Title of poetry  
book/, etc. etc.

Nicolae

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**Author:** ![nicturcan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nicturcan](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/nicturcan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/contributor/391/6 "2007-12-06T19:38:22Z")

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@nicturcan wrote:

> Julian Onions wrote:
> 
> > ```
> > *Author1*, "Foreword or Afterword", in *AUTHOR2 (contributor???)*,
> > /Title of book/, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002, pp. 50-55.
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > Author 1 is the author  
> > Author 2 is the editor usually.
> > 
> > Julian.
> > 
> > * * *
> > 
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> > 
> > ## [SF.Net](http://SF.Net) email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. [http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4](http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4)
> > 
> > * * *
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> > xbiblio-devel mailing list  
> > [xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net](mailto:xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net)  
> > [xbiblio-devel List Signup and Options](https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel)
> 
> Thank you, Julian. But if he isn’t editor? I don’t want to have (ed.)  
> after the name.  
> For example, I have a poet (author), and an author of afterword (not  
> editor). I want to cite the text of this second author. How can I do  
> that?
> 
> SecondAuthor, “Title of his afterword”, in AuthorPoet, /Title of  
> poetry book/, etc. etc.
> 
> Nicolae

The citation of an afterword with its own title must be:

_Nicolae Turcan, “What the philosophy is”, in Grigore Mos, /Angels/,  
Cluj, Ed. Limes, 2004, pp. 90-95._

There are 2 authors: the one principal, who wrote the book of poems -  
Griogore Mos;  
the other secundar, who wrote the afterword (he isn’t an editor!) -  
Nicolae Turcan

The citation of a poem must be:

_Griogre Mos, /Angels/, afterword by Nicolae Turcan, Cluj, Ed. Limes,  
2004, pp. 90-95._

But, if I want to cite the afterword, I must use the first form; in  
other case, the last one.  
Zotero have not the possibility to make the first citation. It needs a  
new term, like main-author. (I wanted to use the “contributor”, but it  
isn’t mapped)  
What do you think, wich is the solution?

Nicolae