Zotero Styles

Two citation styles print the forms of Ashlar, the style guide for Thelemic and esoteric publishing (https://www.ashlarguide.com/5/):

A style arranges what a Zotero record holds, and some of the guide's rules depend on facts a style cannot see, such as whether a name is a motto or whether a book needs its place of publication. For each such rule, these instructions say what to put in the record. A few forms cannot come from a record at all. They are listed under "What to type by hand" below.

Each instruction below was checked by running Zotero's own record-to-citation code (the code in Zotero 7.0 and in Zotero 10.0, the release current in October 2026) against both styles. Both versions handle everything here the same way, except the place of a recorded lecture, which "Videos and recorded lectures" covers. The citation dialog was redesigned after Zotero 7, but in every version clicking a source's bubble opens the boxes named under "In the citation dialog".

Section numbers in parentheses, such as (5.23), are sections of the guide. An example marked with a section number is the guide's own, with N for a first note, S for a short note, B for a bibliography entry, T for an author-date citation and R for a reference-list entry. Examples marked Note or Bibliography show forms the guide does not print; where they name people or presses such as Clara Vane or Lodge Press, these are invented.

Installing

From the files

1. Open Zotero's settings: on a Mac, Zotero › Settings; on Windows or Linux, Edit › Settings.
2. Choose Cite. Below the list of styles, click Add from File… (in Zotero 7, the + button) and choose ashlar-notes-bibliography.csl.
3. Do the same for ashlar-author-date.csl.

When you install a newer copy of a file, Zotero asks whether to update the existing style, and replaces it.

From a link

Both files are on the guide's site, at https://www.ashlarguide.com/zotero/. With the Zotero Connector installed in your browser, following either download link there makes Zotero offer to install the style. Once the styles are accepted into the Zotero Style Repository, they will also be at https://www.zotero.org/styles/ashlar-notes-bibliography and https://www.zotero.org/styles/ashlar-author-date, and Get Additional Styles… in the same pane will find them under "Ashlar".

Using a style in a document

In Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs, open Zotero's Document Preferences and choose the style. For the notes style, choose footnotes or endnotes. The Language menu is greyed out with English (US): both styles fix the language, because the guide's forms are American.

For a list outside a document, select records in Zotero, right-click, and choose Create Bibliography from Items…. With the notes style, its output mode Notes gives the first-note form of each record.

One setting to change

Zotero leaves out the URL of a journal, magazine or newspaper article that has page numbers. Ashlar keeps it (5.29). In Settings › Cite, select Include URLs of paper articles in references. A DOI is never left out.

With the setting on, the styles print any URL a record holds. Clear the URL field of a book or journal you consulted in print (5.29).

Clear Archive and Loc. in Archive on every published book or article: catalog and database imports fill them (JSTOR with its own name and a stable identifier), and they belong only to archival material. The styles print them on a book. On a journal, magazine or newspaper article they print them only when the record also names an archival collection (see "Archives and manuscripts"), so an article imported from JSTOR prints correctly even before you clear them.

Lines in the Extra field

Zotero has no field for some of what Ashlar prints, such as the person who received a text or the collection a letter was printed in. These go in the record's Extra field, one per line, as a name, a colon and a value:

container-title: Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema
recipient: Crowley || Aleister
event-place: Cairo

• Put the lines at the top of Extra. The first line of Extra may be a note of your own. After that, Zotero stops reading at the first line of ordinary text and ignores every line below it. A blank line does not stop it.
• Write each name exactly as given here, in lowercase with hyphens: event-place, container-title. One has an underscore: archive_collection. A label written the way Zotero displays fields ("Event Place:") works for some names and silently fails for others, such as "Archive Collection:" and "Available Date:".
• A person is Family || Given, as in recipient: Crowley || Aleister. A name that is never inverted is written whole: original-author: The Master Therion.
• A date is year, month, day: 1904-04-08. A span takes a slash: 1904-04-08/1904-04-10, 1937/1940. Never type an en dash: issued: 1937–1940 prints 1940 alone.
• A date in brackets goes inside straight double quotation marks: issued: "[1929]". Without the quotation marks, or with curly ones, the brackets are lost in current Zotero releases.
• An Extra line does not replace a filled field. To change a title or a creator, change the field itself. Date lines are the exception: issued: replaces the Date field.

Every record

Titles (5.19, 5.20, 3.46, 3.47)

The styles print titles exactly as they are stored and change no capitals. Type every title, book title, journal title and site title as Ashlar prints it: English titles in title case; titles in other languages in sentence case, except Latin titles of the Renaissance or later; vel and sub figurâ lowercase in every Liber title; received titles in the house form of 8.29; a forum thread's title as its writer capitalized it.

To fix an imported title, right-click the Title field, choose Transform Text › Title Case, and then correct by hand what the command gets wrong (vel, sub figurâ, a non-English title).

A translated title (5.20). Type the translation after the title inside italic markup, with the space inside the markup. The markup makes the translation roman inside the italic title.

Aleister Crowley e la tentazione della politica<i> [Aleister Crowley and the temptation of politics]</i>

Put the original title alone in Short Title. Setting Language ("it", "la") is good practice; the styles do not need it.

Short titles (5.8, 3.49)

Fill Short Title for every work whose title has a subtitle, more than four key words, or an initial A, An or The: no more than four key words, in order, without the initial article; a motto never cut; a Liber shortened as 3.49 directs ("Liber ABA", "Liber E"). Check any Short Title that arrived with an imported record. A received text is the exception: its Short Title is its siglum (see "Received texts").

Where two works by one author would shorten to the same form, lengthen one of the two Short Titles by its next key word (5.8). The styles cannot do this for you: left alone, they tell the two short notes apart by adding the year in parentheses, a form the guide does not use.

A chapter or introduction cited through its book needs the book's short title, which Zotero has no field for. Put it in Extra:

container-title-short: Liber ABA

Place of publication (5.23–5.25, 8.22)

The styles print Place whenever it is filled. Fill it for a book published before 1970, and for a book of any date that was privately printed, published by its author, or issued by an order or lodge. Leave it empty for other books, and delete the place a catalog import supplies. Write a US state or Canadian province as its two-letter postal code.

For a book before 1900 published without a publisher's name, fill Place and leave Publisher empty:

Editions (5.21)

In Edition, type a numbered edition as the number alone: 2 prints "2nd ed." Type any other edition as the bibliography prints it, with a capital: Rev. and expanded ed., New ed., 2nd rev. ed. The styles lowercase it in notes, a proper noun included: Oxford ed. prints "oxford ed." in a note (see "Known limits"). Replace a catalog's wording ("Revised and expanded edition", "Second edition"), and never enter an edition inferred from a date.

Dates (5.26)

No date. Leave Date empty. The styles print n.d., and n.p. where Place and Publisher are both empty.

A date supplied from evidence. Put it in Extra, in straight double quotation marks, with a question mark inside the brackets if it is uncertain:

issued: "[1929]"

You may also type 1929 in Date, so that Zotero's own list sorts the record; the Extra line decides what prints. Say what the date rests on in the text or a note (5.26).

Zotero's development code (October 2026) also reads "[1929]" and spans such as 1937/1940 typed in the Date field. Released versions do not, so use the Extra lines, which work in both.

Names (5.15–5.18, 3.24–3.26, 7.16–7.18)

Ordinary names go in two fields, last name and first name. A lowercase particle typed with the last name (van den Broek) is printed in notes and inverted in the bibliography ("Broek, Roelof van den"), which files under the main name. Where established usage files the name under its particle (3.24), type the last name in straight double quotation marks ("van den Broek"): the bibliography then prints "van den Broek, Roelof". A capitalized particle (Van Buren) is part of the surname and needs nothing.

Names that are never inverted go in a single field: switch the name with the button beside it whose tooltip reads Switch to Single Field. These are office-names (Hymenaeus Beta), mottoes written without Frater or Soror, mottoes of initials, collective bylines (Three Initiates), online names (polyphanes), premodern names, and descriptions of an unnamed person ("A lodge officer").

A motto with Frater or Soror (5.16). Ashlar prints the motto whole in every note and citation ("Frater Achad") and inverts it in the bibliography ("Achad, Frater"), where it files under the motto. Zotero cannot store a name that does both, so do it in two steps.

1. In the record, enter the motto in two fields: last name Achad, first name Frater. The first note, the bibliography and the filing are now right.
2. In every citation of the work, click its bubble in the citation dialog, select Omit Author, and type in Prefix: Frater Achad, for the notes style (with the comma) or Frater Achad for the author-date style.

This gives the right form at every position, in first notes and short notes alike, and it survives every refresh of the document.

Do not enter "Frater Achad" as a single field. The notes come out right, but the bibliography prints "Frater Achad." and files the entry under F.

A second name in brackets (5.15, 5.16). The name on the title page of a work gathered under the author's usual name, or a legal name where 2.39 permits it, prints in brackets in the bibliography and nowhere else. Put it in Extra:

original-author: The Master Therion

A credit that is more than a list of names (5.41, 5.26). Enter the whole statement as one single-field creator, as it reads after the role word. The styles supply ed. or edited by before an Editor and with or With before a Contributor.

• Editor: Wouter J. Hanegraaff in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, and Jean-Pierre Brach
• Contributor: an introduction and commentary by Eugene Rollin Corson

One person as translator and editor (6.51). Zotero has no creator role for this, so enter the person once, in Extra, and not as Editor or Translator:

editor-translator: Mathers || S. L. MacGregor

The line works in Zotero 7 and 10 alike; it was tested with both versions' own code. If the record also lists the person as Editor or Translator, the name prints twice, so remove those creators.

An editor and a different translator are entered in the ordinary way, as Editor and Translator. A work with no author is cited under its editor, and the translator follows the title (5.18, 5.34):

Kinds of source

The record type is in bold. Fields not named are filled in the ordinary way or left empty.

Books and their reprints (5.22)

Book. For a reprint, put the first publication in Original Date, Original Publisher and Original Place, and the reprint's in Date, Publisher and Place. The rule for Place above applies to each separately. A reprint that resets the text is a new edition, entered as an ordinary book.

Multivolume works (5.35)

The guide's note cites one volume with that volume's date, and its bibliography lists the whole set with the span of years. One record cannot do both, so make two Book records.

• The volume you cite. Volume 2, Date 1938. Cite this record in your notes.

• The set. # of Volumes 4, Date 1937, and in Extra:

  issued: 1937/1940
  

  Do not cite this record in notes. At the final pass, add it to the bibliography and remove the volume records (see "At the final pass").

With the author-date style, cite the set record itself, with Page as the locator type and the volume and page as the locator (2:45). The citation then matches the reference-list entry: (Regardie 1937–1940, 2:45).

A volume with its own title: put the volume's title in Extra as volume-title: …. The styles print the general title, then the volume and its title (5.35).

Series (5.37)

Series and Series Number. Both styles print the series and its number in the bibliography or reference list, never in a note or a citation. A numeral follows the series title after a space (Numen Book Series 147); a worded number follows a comma (Studies in Esotericism, Supplement 3). A series without a number is left out, and a Series Editor never prints.

Chapters, introductions and an editor's notes (5.33, 5.36)

A chapter: Book Section. Title, Short Title, Book Title, the book's Editors, Pages. Extra: container-title-short: with the book's short title.

An untitled introduction, foreword or preface: Book Section with Title empty. Author: the introduction's author. Book Author: the book's author. Book Title, Edition, Publisher, Date. Extra:

genre: introduction
container-title-short: Liber ABA

(foreword or preface in place of introduction as the book has it.)

An editor's notes or other untitled apparatus. The same record without the genre line, with the editor as Author. Cite it only for the short form; the bibliography entry for the edition is the edition's own entry under its author.

The Equinox (5.25, 6.35, 6.36)

A Liber or Holy Book printed in a number: Book. Title, Short Title, Volume (the Equinox volume), Date (the number's year), no Publisher or Place. Extra:

container-title: The Equinox
issue: 1
page: 25-34

The page line gives the bibliography its page range; Book has no Pages field.

Do not enter a Liber as a Book Section: its title would print in quotation marks.

An essay or other part whose title takes quotation marks: Book Section. Book Title The Equinox, Volume, Pages, Date. Extra: issue: 1.

A number published as a book with its own title: Book. Series The Equinox, Volume 3, Publisher and Place as for any book. Extra: issue: 5. Without the issue line, The Equinox is treated as a series without a number and left out, and the short note takes the volume ("Crowley, Book of Thoth, 3:42.").

A number cited as a whole: Book. Title The Equinox, Short Title Equinox, Volume, the editor, Publisher, Place and Date. Extra: issue: 10. The volume and number follow the title in every citation (6.35).

A number with no editor is cited by its short title. With the author-date style a comma then separates the number from the year: (Equinox, vol. 3, no. 1, 1919, 5).

A Book with an Issue and neither Series nor a container-title line is always printed this way, so keep issue: off every other Book.

The siglum forms (Eq 1.1, 25) are typed by hand (see "What to type by hand").

Received texts (6.2–6.5, 6.12)

Book, with no Author. Title in the house form of 8.29, and the Publisher and Date of the edition you use. In Short Title put the text's siglum from 8.29 (AL, LLL, Tza) or 8.34. For a text that has none, put a siglum you define for it as 8.14 directs, or its short title inside italic markup, <i>Liber 49</i>, which prints (Liber 49 2:5). Extra:

recipient: Crowley || Aleister
event-place: Cairo
event-date: 1904-04-08/1904-04-10
container-title: Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema

The recipient line is what makes the styles treat the record as a received text: the Short Title prints as a roman siglum, and an author-date citation gives no year. Without it the Short Title prints as an ordinary short title, in italics, with the year. Give event-place and event-date only where the edition records them. Where someone else wrote the text down, add that person as Contributor; the styles print "written down by" (6.4). A translation adds a Translator, and an edited edition an Editor; the styles name them after the edition, never in the author position (6.3, 6.12).

The styles print the Short Title as the siglum, in roman (8.13). With the author-date style you may insert a reference from the record: choose the Verse locator type and type 1:40, which gives (AL 1:40), and the record enters the reference list. In the notes system a reference to chapter and verse stands in the running text and is typed there (6.17; see "What to type by hand"); the record then makes only the bibliography entry, so add it at the final pass (see "At the final pass"). If a note does cite the record, a later note reads "AL 1:40."

Type a verse range with an en dash (1:13–15), which prints (Tza 1:13–15); the styles do not change a hyphen in a verse reference. Cite The Vision and the Voice by Aethyr with the Page locator type: 10 prints (VV 10), and 10 (ZAX) at the first mention prints (VV 10 (ZAX)). Under Verse it would print "VV v. 10". Two editions of one text that share a siglum each print their own year in the reference list, without a or b (5.56).

Journal articles, magazines, newspapers and reviews (5.38, 5.39)

Journal Article or Magazine Article, in the ordinary way. Put a DOI in the DOI field as 10.1163/156798908X327311; the styles print it as https://doi.org/… (5.29). A magazine's date may be a month: July 1995.

A newsletter or other periodical issued by an order, lodge or other body: Magazine Article. The article's writer as Author, the periodical as Publication, its volume (if it has one) in Volume, its number in Issue, the Date, and the body in Publisher (5.39). The Publisher field is what tells the styles to print the number before the date. Leave Publisher empty on any other magazine article, and clear it if an import filled it.

A newspaper article: Newspaper Article. Author, Title, Short Title, Publication, Date, Pages, URL. Leave Section, Place and Edition empty: the styles print whatever they hold. An unsigned article's short note is its short title alone.

A review: Journal Article with the reviewed book's author as Reviewed Author. An untitled review takes the reviewed book's title as its Title. A review with a title of its own keeps it, and the reviewed book's title goes in Extra as reviewed-title: ….

Theses (5.40)

Thesis. Type PhD diss., University, Date, URL.

Reference works (5.41)

A signed entry: Encyclopedia Article (or Dictionary Entry), with the entry's author, the entry's title, the work's title, the editor statement as one single-field Editor (see "Names"), and Pages.

An unsigned entry in a general dictionary: Dictionary Entry with no author: the entry word as Title, Dictionary Title, Accessed and URL for an online dictionary. The styles print under with the entry word and list nothing in the bibliography.

For an unsigned entry in a specialized reference work, cite the entry the same way and add a Book record for the whole work to the bibliography at the final pass (see "At the final pass").

The Sub verbo locator type (see "Locators") is for a Book record of a whole reference work, where the heading you cite is the locator. On a Dictionary Entry or Encyclopedia Article record the entry word is already the title, so cite it with a page or no locator at all.

Ebooks (5.28)

An ebook without fixed pages: Book, with Format Kindle (or EPUB), cited by chapter or section (see "Locators"). An ebook that reproduces the print pages, a PDF, or a scan of a printed book is entered as the printed book, with Format empty.

Archives and manuscripts (5.43, 6.50, 8.41)

The collection, for the bibliography: Manuscript. Title: the collection's name as the repository gives it. Archive: the repository. Extra:

type: collection

The line must be in Extra; the Manuscript's own Type field does not do this.

A document or unpublished letter in that collection: Letter (or Manuscript). Author, Recipient, Date, Archive (the repository), Loc. in Archive (box, folder or shelfmark, as the repository writes it). Extra:

archive_collection: Yorke Collection

The styles give 5.43's order, from the most specific element to the most general, with the page or folio after the shelfmark; the bibliography entry is the collection's entry above. Cite the pages with the Page locator type, which prints pp. after a shelfmark:

Each document cited from a collection brings its own copy of the collection's entry. Remove the extra copies at the final pass (see "At the final pass").

A manuscript cited by its shelfmark: Manuscript. Archive: the repository. Loc. in Archive: the shelfmark exactly as the repository writes it (8.41). Title only where the manuscript has one (6.50). Cite the folio with the Folio locator type (see "Locators"). No bibliography entry is printed for it.

A manuscript in private hands: Manuscript, with neither Archive nor Loc. in Archive. Its title prints in quotation marks, as an unpublished document's does (5.19); only a manuscript cited by its shelfmark keeps italics.

Letters in a published collection (5.44)

Letter. Author, Recipient, Date (the letter's date), Event Place (the place of writing, where it matters; it prints in the first note and not in short notes). The collection's credit line as a single-field Contributor (see "Names"). Extra:

container-title: Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
publisher: Rider
publisher-place: London
available-date: "[1929]"

available-date is the collection's date (an ordinary year needs no quotation marks: available-date: 1990). Where the collection has an editor and the letters are by several writers, add editor: Family || Given; the editor then leads the entry. Where an editor collected the letters of one writer, add both lines, the writer as container-author, so that the entry is listed under the writer (5.18, 5.44):

editor: Vane || Clara
container-author: Crowley || Aleister

The bibliography entry is the collection's. Each letter cited brings its own copy, and a Book record for the same collection prints the same entry; keep one at the final pass (see "At the final pass").

Podcasts (5.45)

Podcast. Podcaster (the host), Title (the episode), Short Title, Series Title (the show), Date, URL. In Episode Number, type the number alone (1), or, with a season, the words as the bibliography prints them: Season 2, episode 5. The notes lowercase them.

File Type prints right after the show's title. Where the show's title does not say podcast, type podcast there (5.45); otherwise leave it empty, and clear anything an import put there, such as MP3.

Locate a passage with the Timestamp locator type (see "Locators").

Videos and recorded lectures (5.45)

A video: Video Recording. Creator: the person who made the video, or the channel where no person is named. Title, Date, URL, and in Format the platform with the word video: YouTube video. Where the video belongs to a channel or series with its own name, put that name in Extra:

container-title: Angela’s Symposium

Leave Studio and Running Time empty, and clear them if an import filled them: the styles print both. An original date, where the video gives one, goes in Extra as original-date: 2019-01-05 and prints as a year.

Without a channel the video's own title is italic: Angela Puca, Thelema Explained, 3 June 2021, YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example.

A recorded lecture: Presentation. Presenter, Title, Type lecture in lowercase, Meeting Name (the occasion or series), Date, URL. Leave Place empty and put the place in Extra, with the medium of the recording:

event-place: London
medium: video

Zotero 10 prints a place typed in the Place field; Zotero 7 drops it. The Extra line works in both.

Conference papers (5.12)

An unpublished conference paper: Conference Paper. Author, Title, Conference Name, Event Place (not Place, which the styles leave out of a paper), Date. A paper printed in proceedings also takes Proceedings Title, the volume's Editors, Publisher and Pages, and prints as a chapter does.

Web pages and archived copies (5.30, 5.31, 5.46)

Web Page. Put the owner or sponsor of a site in Publisher, and leave Website Title empty where it would only repeat that name. Put a site's own name in Website Title. Accessed and URL. The owner leads the bibliography entry of a page that names no author; a page with an author and a site title does not print its owner (5.46).

An archived copy. URL: the archived copy's address. Date: the date of capture. Extra:

status: archived

Blogs and newsletters (5.47, 5.50)

Blog Post. Blog Title, Date, URL. Website Type blog or newsletter, only where the blog's title does not already say which. An online name is a single-field Author (see "Names").

Type straight quotation marks inside a title (On "Scientific Illuminism" and …); the styles turn them into the right curly marks, single inside double.

Forums, mailing lists and chat (5.48)

Forum Post. Forum/Listserv Title, Date, URL. The title as its writer capitalized it (see "Titles").

A post on a private forum is entered as a personal communication (see "Personal communications and interviews").

Documents without an imprint (5.49)

Document. Author, Title, Date, URL, and Extra for the site that hosts it and the format:

issued: 1992/1997
container-title: Chaos Matrix
medium: PDF

Never put the hosting site in Publisher (5.49).

A shorter document (an essay or a set of notes rather than a book) takes quotation marks (5.49). Enter it as a Web Page: Author, Title, Date, URL, the site in Website Title, and Extra medium: PDF (or the format it has). The styles then give it the order of a document, with n.d. where it has no date.

A document that names no author is cited by its title, and the site stays in its place after the date (5.17, 5.49): “Notes on the Pentagram Ritual,” 1997, Chaos Matrix, PDF, http://www.chaosmatrix.org/pent.pdf.

Personal communications and interviews (5.51)

An email, letter or message to you: Letter. Author (a single-field description where the person is not named), Recipient as the single-field name the author, Date, and Type email message (or letter, direct message, conversation). Enter an email as a Letter too, not as Zotero's E-mail record, which has no Type field and prints its Subject as a title in quotation marks.

An interview you conducted: Interview. Interview With (a single-field description where the person is not named), Interviewer as the single-field name the author, Date.

Neither is listed in the bibliography (5.51).

AI-generated text (5.53)

Web Page with Title empty. Website Type: the tool and version, as text generated by ChatGPT (GPT-4o). Publisher: the company. Date: the day the text was generated. URL: a shared copy of the conversation, where the tool provides one. Extra:

references: in response to the prompt "Explain the term True Will as Aleister Crowley uses it."

Website Type is required by 5.53, which names the tool: without it the note begins with the company ("OpenAI, 14 March 2025, in response to the prompt …") and later notes read "OpenAI." Where a URL follows, end the prompt without a period, or the note prints "uses it.,”". Nothing is listed in the bibliography (5.53). Say in the text or a note that you edited the output, where you did.

In a work using the author-date style, type the version in brackets, text generated by ChatGPT [GPT-4o], so that the citation does not put parentheses inside parentheses: (text generated by ChatGPT [GPT-4o], OpenAI, 14 March 2025, in response to the prompt “Explain the term True Will as Aleister Crowley uses it.”).

In the citation dialog

Click a source's bubble to open its details: a menu of locator types, the Locator box, Prefix, Suffix and Omit Author.

Locators (5.27, 5.28, 5.35, 6.18–6.19, 6.41, 8.15, 8.18)

A worded division must use the Part type, which prints whatever you type. Section always prints the word section before the locator, and under Page Zotero's citation engine drops the second p.:

A time needs the Timestamp type; under Page it prints without at ("12:40"). Under Sub verbo type the word alone, and the styles add the quotation marks. A word typed in curly quotation marks keeps them inside the styles' (under “‘occult.’”), and in straight ones prints them doubled (under ““occult.””).

Never cite a Kindle location or another position a device assigns (5.28). The style prints a page range in full (112–114), whatever you type.

A source quoted in another (5.11)

Insert one citation with both sources, the original first. On the second source, type in Prefix, with the comma first:

, quoted in

Both sources enter the bibliography in the ordinary way.

Author-date citations (5.55, 5.56, 6.16)

The author named in your sentence. Type the name, then insert the citation with Omit Author selected.

Two works in one parenthesis. Insert one citation with both, in the order your argument uses them.

A received-text reference in the same parenthesis (6.16). Put the reference and a semicolon in the Prefix of the author-date citation: AL 1:57; gives "(AL 1:57; Hanegraaff 2012, 77)". A received-text reference on its own, (AL 1:40), can be inserted from the text's record with the Verse locator type (see "Received texts"), or typed by hand.

Two works of one author and year take a letter after the year, and a semicolon divides them in one citation: "(Asprem 2012a, 12; 2012b, 140)".

A comment after a note (5.6, 5.10)

Type a comment, or the sentence "Further references to this work appear in the text," in the footnote after the citation, outside Zotero's citation.

At the final pass

These steps change the bibliography Zotero inserts, through Add/Edit Bibliography, which opens the Edit Bibliography window once a bibliography is in the document. Zotero keeps these changes when it updates the document. Do them when the text is settled; a source cited later may need the same step.

• Duplicate entries. Several documents from one archival collection, or several letters from one published collection, each bring a copy of the collection's entry (see "Archives and manuscripts" and "Letters in a published collection"). The copies stand together in the list. Select all but one, click Remove, and confirm that they are omitted from the bibliography. Their citations are unchanged. Do the same where a Book record and a letter print the same collection.
• A multivolume work (5.35). Add the set record from the left-hand list, and remove the volume records you cited (see "Multivolume works").
• A received text whose verses you typed by hand (6.4), or a work whose entries you cite unsigned (5.41). Add its record from the left-hand list. A received text cited through Zotero with the author-date style is already listed.
• A bibliography divided into sections (5.13). Zotero inserts one list. Make each section from a subcollection (right-click it and choose Create Bibliography…) and paste them in, or divide the inserted list by hand after the last update of the document.
• A full note at the first citation in each chapter (5.7). Zotero gives a full note only at a work's first citation in a document. Keep each chapter in its own document, or, where one document holds several chapters, make the full note with Create Bibliography from Items… (output mode Notes), paste it into the chapter's first note, and add the locator.

What to type by hand

These forms are written in the document, not inserted from Zotero:

• Verse, chapter and division references to received texts and scripture (6.13–6.17, 6.21–6.23, 6.29–6.33, 8.29–8.37), such as (AL 1:3, 40; 2:9; 3:60), (LLL P:3), (AL 3:37 TRV), (Matt. 5:3, 9; 6:9). They stand in the running text in parentheses, in both systems, and are never notes. With the author-date style a single reference such as (AL 1:40) may also be inserted from the text's record (see "Received texts").

• The statement of the edition followed (6.5, 6.30), in the list of abbreviations or in a note at the first reference: "1. Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX is cited in the text by chapter and verse, as AL, from Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema (Conjoined Creation, 2015)."

• Sigla for works cited by page: Eq 1.1, 25 (6.35, 8.32) and 777 col. 14, row 6, p. 4 (6.37, 8.34). The first note of the work still comes from its record.

• Oral and initiatory instruction (5.52, 6.73), restricted and oath-bound material (6.68–6.74), and the writer's own magical record (6.41). Their wording depends on the material and the consent held, and they carry no link or shelfmark. Keeping them out of Zotero also keeps identifying details out of shared and synced libraries.

  N (5.52): Lodge instruction, given at a meeting of a lodge in London, 14 March 2021; the speaker is not named, and the reader cannot check the source.

• The list of abbreviations (8.5) and the headings Bibliography, Selected Bibliography or References (5.12, 5.57).

• Cross-references to earlier notes and comments in notes (5.6), the "further references" sentence (5.10), what a supplied date rests on (5.26), paywall and editing statements (5.47, 5.53), and the statement that a livestream's recording does not survive (5.45).

Known limits

• Initial articles in filing (5.14). A title that begins with The, A or An is filed under that word, both among one author's works and where the title begins the entry: The Book of Results files after Starfire Rites. The cause is in Zotero's citation engine, not in the styles, and the Edit Bibliography window cannot reorder entries. When the text is final, check the order of the bibliography and move such entries by hand; Zotero restores its own order whenever it updates the document, so repeat the moves after any later update, or make them in a copy of the document from which the Zotero fields have been removed (Unlink Citations in the Zotero tab of the word processor).
• An edition named after a place or a person (Oxford ed.) prints in lowercase in notes ("oxford ed."), because the styles lowercase the whole statement and cannot tell a proper noun within it. Correct such a note in the final copy of the document.
• Two letters from one collection in one author-date citation read "(Blavatsky [1929], 172; [1929], 180)". Cite them in separate parentheses if you prefer.
• A collection cited both as a book and through its letters (author-date) takes a letter after the year for the book ([1929]c). Cite the collection one way or the other.

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