Italicizing a term(s) in a journal article / book chapter title

eeplank

Hello,
I searched awhile back in the forums for how to make a part of a title for a journal article appear as italics (normally, they would appear within quotation marks). I thought that the thread said to put the following notations on either side of the words I wanted italicized: <i> and </i>.

For example, in the "title" field of the entry, I would put them like this...

<i>Disciplina nervus ecclesiae</i>: The Calvinist Reform of Morals at Nimes

...because "Disciplina nervus ecclesiae" is a Latin phrase and must be italicized. However, when I tried this method, it did not work. Can you explain how I might do this (I am using a PC, Microsoft Word 2012)? Thanks!

adamsmith

You're doing that right and it should work (and does for me). Which citation style?

Rintze

See also http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/rich_text_bibliography

Just to make sure: you're adding these tags in your Zotero library, right?

eeplank

Hello - and thank you for your comments. I am using Chicago Manuel of Style (full note), and, yes, I am adding these into the library. What is odd is that when the citation is inserted into the footnote, or when a final bibliography is created, each time it puts the markers in, rather than replacing them with the style. Any other suggestions?

adamsmith

Could you try in a fresh document with a different citation style (let's say Elsevier Harvard for simplicity).

eeplank

Okay, I opened a new document, used the style you suggested, and placed a citation in the document. Because of the style format, it only placed the author last name and date. Then, when I pressed the button for "Zotero Insert Bibliography" - it placed the full citation on the page - and it was correctly italicized!

So...I am required to use Chicago full note for my project. How can I get this style to translate to the Chicago style?

adamsmith

This was mainly for troubleshooting. Next step would be to try this in a new document with Chicago full note (which works for me).

If this _does_ work correctly with Chicago style in a new document, my best idea would be to run through this:
http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#debugging_broken_documents

if it _doesn't_ work I'm less sure what to do.