Film and Chicago style

mneiger

Hi,

As far as I understand Chicago style, the entry for "film" type should use the title first, and not the director. There seem to be a similar issue outstanding for MLA since last november.
Is there an active ticket for this issue?

Cheers,
Marc

ajlyon

MLA seems to allow either approach (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/09/), depending on the author's intent.

My Chicago manual tells me that "Movies" should have the title first if they were watched in a theatre. Otherwise, they should be cited as Video Recordings, which have the creators first.

This seems like a case where Zotero can't really work perfectly, since the form of citation does not depend entirely on the form of item being cited, but also on the author's intent and on the location where the item was consulted.

adamsmith

I can confirm that I did this on purpose for MLA.

erazlogo

Film item type is really for theater releases and should have title first and not the director in Chicago; but a few tickets need to be closed before this happens:

https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/862
https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/844
https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/842