Chicago Manual of Style (author-data and note): Web Page dates
Chicago Manual of Style (author-data) prints the publication year only, no access date.
Chicago Manual of Style (note) prints the full publication date, but no access date.
None of them prints "last modified" or "accessed" as suggested by the Manual.
Chicago Manual of Style (note) prints the full publication date, but no access date.
None of them prints "last modified" or "accessed" as suggested by the Manual.
CMoS, 16th ed., 14.245 has "last modified", "accessed", and both:
14. “WD2000: Visual Basic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String
Variable,” revision 1.3, Microsoft Help and Support, last modified
November 23, 2006, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212730.
15. “Google Privacy Policy,” last modified October 14, 2005, accessed
July 19, 2008, http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
16. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” McDonald’s Corporation,
accessed July 19, 2008,
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
17. Barack Obama’s Facebook page, accessed July 19, 2008,
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama.
18. “Style Guide,” Wikipedia, last modified July 18, 2008,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide.
Microsoft Corporation. “WD2000: Visual Basic Macro to Assign Clipboard
Text to a String Variable.” Revision 1.3. Microsoft Help and Support.
Last modified November 23, 2006. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212730.
I believe we do substitute in the access date where there is no publication date.
"Accessed" date - yes, that gets printed in both styles when there is no "Date", and it does include month and day.
My other point was that you might be forced to, or simply want to include an accessed date statement. I see that the Chicago Manual, in 14.7, _does_ mention this very possibility. So how could I achieve that?
Come to think of it, a web page might have three relevant dates, published, modified, and accessed. So it might not be clear whether "Date" means published or modified, so unless it can be specified which one it is it might not be practical to print "last modified".
Anyway, I'd be happy if the Chicago styles could be made to print _both_ "Date" and "Accessed" if both happen to appear in my data.
We're not going to change the Chicago style on the repository WRT access dates - by default, Zotero will include access dates for a lot of items and as I say CMoS recommends to not print them in most cases, but you can customize your copy of the style if you want:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees. 2008. “Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000–2010: A Decade of Outreach.” Evanston Public Library. Accessed July 19. http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html.
(Evanston Public Library 2008)
That is exactly what I get using Zotero, you don't?
(I'd really appreciate if you'd look up & quote the relevant CMoS sections for any further inquiries, bug reports - it doesn't take me any less time than you to look them up).
What I'm talking about is a "Web Page" with a "Date", like "2013-01-21", and the output is just "2013".
All the examples concerning websites I can find in the CMoS have month and day.
Same thing, btw, for blog posts and e-mails - month and day aren't printed by chicago-author-year - but they should. In 14.426, there's even one example with a time stamp.
And again, chicago-notes does print month and day of "Date", at least for "Web Page", "E-Mail", and "Blog Post", and I see no reason why chicago-author-year shouldn't do the same.
The style is now fixed. The updated version will appear on the repository within 30mins (check the timestamp). Update your copy of the style by re-installing it from the repository. (See here if you need instructions for installing styles in standalone.)
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