Chicago "note without bibliography" style exports letters and manuscripts incorrectly: It omits all archival information (location in archive and repository), type of manuscript/letter, and recipient for letters. Manuscript titles should be in quotation marks; they are not.

For a letter, I should get:

1. Mark J. Woods to William E. Harkness, memorandum, September 15, 1923, box 1, folder 3, EPHJ Mss.

Instead I get:

1. Mark J. Woods, September 15, 1923.

For a manuscript, I should get:

1. J. Andrew White, “Radiophone Broadcasting of Dempsey-Carpentier Fight on July 2, 1921,” typescript, New York, July 14, 1921, series 135 box 532, GHC Mss., 3.

Instead I get:

1. J. Andrew White, Radiophone Broadcasting of Dempsey-Carpentier Fight on July 2, 1921 (New York, 1921), 3.

This makes Zotero pretty much useless for citing either item type. If there is a way for me to fix this myself in Zotero I am happy to do it for the Chicago style.

Rick: in the long run, styles will become irrelevant, as everything becomes electronic and web accessible. But we'll be stuck with the arcane eccentricities of publisher and journal specific citation styles for a long time unfortunately.

The problem with the formatting of manuscripts isn't really the style; more how Zotero currently implements CSL. But both CSL and the Zotero formatting engine are in the process of being updated, so hopefully we'll get that fixed along the way.