Replacement Citation Style Recommendation

sicahjes · 2025-02-26T07:07:05+00:00

I am a few weeks out from submission. Originally, I had planned to adjust a csl for my thesis so I could have a system suitable to my preferences/needs, but I don't think I'll have time now.

Can anyone recommend a citation style (if it exists) that that is similar to Chicago 17th Edition (Note) but it:

* Displays full title on first citation, then short title thereafter
* Always displays the year
* Does not use ibid.

Reasoning: Full Note is clogging up my literature review pages (even with short title subsequent), and Note does not contain enough information.

Thanks :)

damnation · 2025-02-26T10:16:13+00:00

We have a bunch of Chicago variants. I'd start with those: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=Chicago

adamsmith · 2025-02-26T11:28:11+00:00

I don't think we have one that always displays the date -- it's not something Chicago does. I don't quite understand why you would want to customize citations for a dissertation. Chicago styles are used by 100s of publishers and probably 100000s of researchers -- why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?

sicahjes · 2025-02-26T12:29:11+00:00

Thanks @damnation, I looked at those before posting.

"I don't quite understand why you would want to customize citations for a dissertation. Chicago styles are used by 100s of publishers and probably 100000s of researchers -- why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?"

@adamsmsith

I can't use the Chicago 17th Edition (Note), as all it displays in the footnotes is the surname and short title. However, the full note is proving problematic due to the amount of citations I have in the lit reviews along with the data in the citation being rather lengthy for certain sources.

I was hoping for something that had the year, as some UN documentation has very similar names and when the short title is used it can be hard to distinguish between each at a glance, but it's not a deal breaker. The main issue is that I can't seem to find a happy middle ground and was wondering if there was a system out there that would be suitable.

Edit to add: I've been playing with the 'full note, short subsequent' and it does not work for me. The footnotes are identical on subsequent citations.