Author-date style without url/date

judith

I am looking for a style that is almost like the Chicago-Manual of Style (Author date), but the bibliography should NOT include the date accessed and url for articles. Can I already generate this in a word doc or is this something that still needs to be developed?

scot

I don't think you can do that yet. This problem comes up more often than it might because some of the translators put the URL for database records containing the article's metadata into Zotero's URL field. (The CSL field to which that field is mapped is really only supposed to hold a URI for the document itself).

The short term solution is to clear out your URL field,or to move the link over to a note.

Probably the Chicago styles (and most others?) should default to "don't include URI information in Ref List/long footnotes if print-citation information is available." (Then you can still get URLs included for online pages which have no other citable source.) But this raises a some issues. How do you know that you have full print metadata? (and see links below)

And the URL field probably needs to be made into a few fields, or the translators just need to add database URLs into linked notes.

There are some previous discussions on this last issue.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/883/removal-of-url-field-on-output/#Item_0
(and linked posts)
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1198/ugly-url-inserted-in-chicago-citations-imported-from-jstor-etc/#Item_0
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/348/urls/#Item_0
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1279/