I recently tried to export a "Chicago Style Note" and the exported version is incorrect.

This is what Zotero generated,

Paul the Deacon. History of the Lombards. Translated by William Foulke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974.

This is a bibliography entry and not a footnote. Am I missing something here?

Thank you for your help!

Adam, thanks for your help. The issue involves the entire note. This is what a chicago footnote should like like

Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards, trans. William Foulke, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974), III.24.

Instead, I receive this "Paul the Deacon. History of the Lombards. Translated by William Foulke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974." which is a bibliography entry.

I am exporting the note by a right click and selecting, "Chicago Manual Style" (Note) and then pasting the note onto pages (mac). This method has been working since I have been using Zotero, which has been for around a year. I just noticed the problem today.

I followed your instructions and received this: Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards, which still is not a footnote. Has Zotero removed the footnote option?

That worked! Thank you

The instructions are for 3.0.1 - but it should say Quick Copy in the Export tab, not the Cite tab.

Yes it's permanent. We think it's an improvement, as there is no real reason to have two separate styles, one with and one without a bibliography, that are otherwise identical - it also meant one more style to maintain.

My suggestion would be to encourage use of the Word Processor plugin - Chicago footnotes are going to be wrong (i.e. no ibid, no shortened subsequent notes) anyway if they're using drag&drop.

Yes, the Quick Copy Instructions are the place to point to. Both they and the CMoS site are in wiki form, so feel free to clarify/update them:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/documentation

ah yes, I remember - Library of Congress...

"I still hope you'll consider some way to put something into a menu or dialog box that indicates how to get citations out of Zotero 3.x for Firefox."

I wouldn't know where, to be honest (context menus are (over-)packed already), and shift-drag seems pretty intuitive/simple to me.

Alternatively, it would be quite easy to make an in-house copy of CMoS for you without a bibliography (i.e. restoring prior behavior). That would not be maintained and it wouldn't be hosted on the repository, but I'd be happy to make it for you if that's useful.

yes, that's what I mean with "The context menu is already packed" - there are a dozen or so options listed there already and, while this isn't my decision to make, I think adding more for what I consider a pretty marginal use case (although I understand it's important for you) is frankly not worth it. Having too many options in context menus makes the software less user friendly.

Maybe shift-right-click could toggle that option to Create Citation... - Dan would have to say if that's possible.

OK. I have been moved over here with my query. I have installed the Word plugin (although that makes for an extra step if, say, we are using WordPerfect). But it sure seems a lot less intuitive than it was before. I barely understand it; little chance that I can teach it.

To summarize:

Note-based styles can define footnote(/endnote) entries and they can define bibliography entries. When a note style doesn't define a bibliography, "Create Bibliography from Selected Item" falls back to generating footnotes. There used to be separate Chicago note styles, one without a bibliography and one with, but that was redundant since the styles were otherwise identical, and maintaining them both was a hassle.

The word processor plugins generate the correct form automatically based on what you're doing. If you're using "Create Bibliography from Selected Item" within Zotero itself, with the new style it will generate a bibliography. You can, alternatively, set your Quick Copy settings and shift-drag items directly into any text field to create footnote citations rather than bibliography entries.

We're discussing ways to restore the ability to generate footnote entries via "Create Bibliography from Selected Item" when a note-based style also defines a bibliography, but that's a very slow way of generating these anyway.

A radio button could work. You have to select your citation style and your output format anyway, so you think about all those output choices once, and then you're good to go until you need something else. If those can be visually offset from the other radio buttons somehow, so much the better.

I realize this may not be the most efficient way to generate citations, but it would provide continuity for current user and allow occasional/new users to figure out what's going on w/o RTFM. It's also against what I understand of the spirit of Zotero to tie it's best open source functionality solely to a paid commercial product (MsWord), so I really appreciate your consideration of this or a similar modification.

SLG

It's also against what I understand of the spirit of Zotero to tie it's best open source functionality solely to a paid commercial product (MsWord)

It doesn't. Zotero works with Libre Office and Open Office, restructured text via zotero-plain and LyX via the Lyz plugin. All of these are open source.
I hope that we'll get better RTF support in the not-too distant future to support scrivener, word perfect etc.

Using drag&drop has never and will never be as good as some version of word processor integration.

(I guess I have to turn in my high school diploma.) I go to quick styles (and it is already on chicago manual of style, so I didn't ahve to change that), and, if I shrink my Firefox browser, I can drag selected references over to Word or WordPerfect, or Textpad, or whatever, and it drags my citations. Great. Works. But it is still Bibliographic not Note form. (If I do short note, it does last name, short title of book, but that is not what I want.) I will go read more documentation, but what I loved about Zotero was that you didn't need to read documentation. (I should note that yours has to be the fastest comments response section ever.)

So far, for me, shift-drag has worked terrific if I want to paste something into a Web form on the same page. But it's terribly unwieldly if I'm working in multiple applications. I have, say, 20 windows open in 6 applications and when I'm ready to add a new citation to something I have to keep bringing the target window up to the top, then find the Firefox tab with the open Zotero pane to get that positioned above the target window, and then I have to shift-drag (with a trackpad) from just the right place in the Zotero pane to just the right place in the target document, which is only partly visible to me because of the overlap of the windows.

After I missed a couple of times I started dragging the citations into big blank spaces, and then cutting and pasting them via my clipboard before placing them. At that point, I was wasting my time, so the keyboard shortcut makes more sense for me. But a lot of otherwise intelligent people don't like keyboard shortcuts.

OK. Thanks. I can get a footnote again. I can teach that. (And I will go back to the Word plugin and figure out how to work that as well.) Notes are much more important (one writes papers with notes more often) than bibliographies for historians/students writing for history essays/journals/books, yes?

OK. I understand the MS Word Add-in. The manual notes are (were?) just useful if I am helping a student or colleague with a citation query and I can (could?) simply paste a set of sources in a note into an email or print off a page to give them. But I now see how the add-in works and undergrads can use just fine. Two queries:

1) For computers that are under Deep Freeze protection, can Zotero and/or Zotero Word add-in be part of some remote update system?

2) In MS 2010, can the zotero button bar always be present or does one always have to click Add-ins? (I should be able to figure that out myself of course.)

Presently I have changed the Quick Copy style to Chicago Manual of Style (note without bibliography) (legacy), but I still get only bibliographically formatted citations.

(Eg: Taylor, C. C. W. The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.)

The same thing happens when I change to MHRA legacy note format or Chicago note format. Zotero changes the style all right (formatting changes) but it is still bibliographic instead of footnote.

(Eg: Taylor, C. C. W., The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010)
For MHRA (note without bibliography) (legacy)

Am I doing something wrong? How could I get the note format for Chicago?

Ubuntu 10.04, FF10.02, Z 3.03 (LO 3.5)

Ctrl-Alt-A is the solution, thanks. I always knew that Quick Copy shortcut is Ctrl-Alt-C. This is even written so in preferences?

But yes, it's also in the preferences
Shortcuts --> Copy selected item citations to clipboard

I'm not making stuff up. It's listed in the Shortcuts tab of the Zotero preferences.
edit: didn't see your edit.

I got my problem solved already with your first mention of the shortcut, thank you. Strange that Ctrl-Alt-A has eluded me for so long.