Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (author-date) Formatting Problems

samantha.i.feder
Hello,

Zotero seems to be using a different format than the guidelines on the Chicago Manual of Style website. These are examples of the author-date guidelines I have been following before using Zotero: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

For a book I had hoped to get this:

Ahmed, Leila. 1992. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Instead Zotero gave me this:

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

For a journal article I had hoped to get this:

Behiery, Valerie. 2013. “Bans on Muslim Facial Veiling in Europe and Canada: A Cultural History of Vision Perspective.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 19(6): 775-793.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2013.842676.

Instead I got this:

Behiery, Valerie. “Bans on Muslim Facial Veiling in Europe and Canada: A Cultural History of Vision Perspective.” Social Identities 19, no. 6 (November 2013): 775–93. doi:10.1080/13504630.2013.842676.


Will I have to manually make all the formatting changes? Or is there something I can do to fix the order of the dates, how journal issues/volumes appear in the citation?
  • adamsmith
    You're using the full note version of Chicago Manual, not the author-date version, which will produce the citations the way you want them.

    Note that the page you link to also distinguishes between the two different formats.
  • samantha.i.feder
    Hi Adam,

    Thank you for responding so quickly!

    I tried to change the citation style to the full note version, but the order of the date still has not changed. I am using the plugin for Word. I went to the menu and selected "Set Document Preferences" and then changed the style. Is there another step that I may have missed? I tried to close Word and reopen the document, but it did not make a difference.
  • adamsmith
    no you don't want to change it _to_ the full note version. you want to change it to the author date version. I thought that comes pre-installed, but if it doesn't, install it from zotero.org/styles.
  • adamsmith
    The only other idea I have -- how exactly are you inserting the citations in Word? Using the Word add-on, or are you dragging&dropping from Zotero?

    When using the Word add-on, you should notice that the in-text citations aren't in author date format.
  • samantha.i.feder
    I tried using the Word add-on as well as dragging and dropping from Zotero. Neither methods gave me the right format. I just right clicked on a source in Zotero and selected "create bibliography from item" and then "copy to clipboard" so that I could copy the reference to Word. Only then did I get the proper format.
  • fbennett
    Samantha,

    There is just something wrong with your settings in the word processor; Zotero will definitely produce correctly formatted references, automatically, with that style.

    Possibly you selected Chicago Author-Date in Zotero Preferences/Export, but not in the word processor "Document Preferences" settings?
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