Case citation in Chicago Manual of Style

erinkavon · April 23, 2012

Recently, Zotero has started incorrectly citing court cases in Chicago Manual of Style (full note without bibliography). There are two problems I see:

1) The "v." separating the parties has become capitalized, even when it is entered in lower-case. E.g. instead of "Brown v. Board," the citation reads "Brown V. Board."

2) In subsequent case citations, the volume number and colon appear. (This seems to be a recurring problem, similar to one that was put to rest a year ago, under the forum heading "Incorrect subsequent case citation - Chicago style.") E.g. subsequent citations of "Brown v. Board, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)" read "Brown v. Board, 347:." or "Ibid, 347:."

Any thoughts on this?
Thanks!

adamsmith · April 23, 2012

1) needs Frank's attention.
I'll take a look at
2)

fbennett · April 23, 2012

The text-case attribute should be avoided on type="bill legislation legal_case". It could be avoided implicitly in the processor, but just coding that into the style would be more transparent.

adamsmith · April 23, 2012

I guess I'll do both then..., but won't be immediate.

fbennett · April 23, 2012

@adamsmith: you need an understudy. :)

adamsmith · August 28, 2012

these are now fixed in the fullnote Chicago style - the others to follow in the next couple of days.

slandrum · June 17, 2014

I know this is an old issue, but I'm now noticing that in the fullnote Chicago 16th edition style, the case names aren't italicized. How can I fix my local copy of Zotero to rectify this?

adamsmith · June 17, 2014

I'm pretty sure case names shouldn't be in italics in citations Chicago style (only when referred to in the text) - don't have the manual here right now, but I looked this up recently.