# Originally independent works republished in edited volumes, collected writing and so

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/originally-independent-works-republished-in-edited-volumes-collected-writing-and-so/1581>\
**Category:** CSL Evolution\
**Created:** [November 20, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/originally-independent-works-republished-in-edited-volumes-collected-writing-and-so/1581 "2019-11-20T21:51:57Z")\
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I am in favor of updating the major styles that would need this to be accommodated (e.g., MLA, Chicago), combined with a test case illustrating expected data structure for such an item.

For creators, CSL currently relies on the heuristic that `editor` and `translator` refer to the editor/translator of a `container` if one exists. The cases where this is a problem are fairly rare, rare enough that I’m not sure they are worth pursuing unless a [hierarchical data model](https://github.com/citation-style-language/csl-evolution/issues/12#issuecomment-617029729) is adopted. I would expect the same heuristic to apply here: the `editor` of a `book` with a `container-title` is the editor of the container. The `editorial-director` variable is also available (it’s used in primarily French styles to distinguish the person coordinating the curation of the book contents from persons doing textual editing).

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