Editing a Citation Style (Chicago Manual Style

misericord

Hello i am aphd candidate at international economics. i am writing my thesis but our thesis style does not fit any basic style. I found that it has %89 similarity to Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (full note)
i wanted to edit and create my own style but i had no idea about editing and after i searched the zotero web site about that i found a lot of instruction about editing bu i have no ability of software programming i want some help please.

İ.e:
Author:Robert C. Allen
Title of book: Global Economic History: A very short introduction
Edition: 2. Baski
Published place: Oxford, New York
Publisher: Oxford University press
Publishing year:2011

Like a book above this is what zotero gave me [Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (full note)] for footnote:

Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, 2. baski (Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

And This i what i want for a footnote:

Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction 2. Basim. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, s.(i.e 45).

How can i make it happen please help me. Thanks.

adamsmith

I'd recommend working with the visual editor on the page where you identified the most similar style in the first place, i.e. http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/
While we can help if you run into very specific issues, I don't think anyone here will have the time to walk you through style edits one by one, sorry.

misericord

is it possible to what i wanted to do?

adamsmith

it's certainly possible, yes.

misericord

ok. for example:
i want to change "2nd ed" to "2.(something)" how can i make it?

adamsmith

you already have 2. baski in the example above -- Zotero handles ordinal numbers automatically in different locales. You'll just have to either change the term for edition in the locale or just put in "Basim" as a suffix if you want a quick&easy solution.