possible to change in-text citations to footnotes?

mrsnafu05

Hey, I am Using the new:

Chicago Manual of Style (author-date) (German) style. I like it a lot but I'd rather have Footnotes instead of in-text citations. Is it possible to adapt the style and what would I have to change in order to make it work!

Thanks, Marco.

adamsmith

What exactly would you want in the footnotes? Chicago author-date is by definition an in-text style. As you can see, there are various Chicago styles, including a whole range of note-based ones.

mrsnafu05

sorry. found my way through it. did a bit of experimenting and actually adapted a different style.

i now use the Harvard Reference ... 7

There's just one thing I do not know how to get fixed. I want this style to show two subsequent footnotes as "Ebd." or "Ibid"

How hard is it to implement this into the style?

adamsmith

not terribly hard. You can check out the ibid logic in "Chicago Manual of Style (note)" to see how it works. You can just copy large chunks of it: obviously not the "else" part - that would have your current citation output - and you don't have the locators macro used in the ibid-with-locator part.

mrsnafu05

seems harder than i thought. i tried to adapt the style in the following way:

<citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" et-al-subsequent-min="3" et-al-subsequent-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year">
<layout prefix="" suffix="." delimiter="; ">
<choose>
<if position="ibid-with-locator">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text term="ibid" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
<text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/>
</group>
</if>
<else-if position="ibid">
<text term="ibid" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
</else-if>
<else-if position="subsequent">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="contributors-short"/>
<text macro="title-short"/>
<text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/>
</group>
</else-if>
<else>
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="issued"/>
</sort>
<layout prefix="" suffix="" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="title"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text macro="locator-citation" prefix=": "/>
</layout>

</else>
</choose>
</layout>
</citation>

originally it was:

<citation et-al-min="3" et-al-use-first="1" et-al-subsequent-min="3" et-al-subsequent-use-first="1" disambiguate-add-year-suffix="true" collapse="year">
<sort>
<key macro="author"/>
<key variable="issued"/>
</sort>
<layout prefix="" suffix="" delimiter="; ">
<group delimiter=", ">
<text macro="author-short"/>
<text macro="title"/>
<text macro="year-date"/>
</group>
<text macro="locator-citation" prefix=": "/>
</layout>
</citation>

sadly the test pane came back with:
Error parsing style:
TypeError: myxml is undefined

any idea what might be wrong?

fbennett

There are problems with the syntax. The best way to explore them is through validation.

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#validation

adamsmith

beyond the syntax, though, you're also using a macro that is not defined:
<text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/>
that's the reason the test pane throws that particular error.

The only syntax issue I see quickly is the <sort> section, which needs to remain before <layout>, i.e. in the second line of the <citation> section.

Also, I would take out the <else-if subsequent> part - that doesn't make any sense here.