Bibliography when author is unknown

FBehbehani

Hello, 2 Questions

I am using Chicago Manual Style (author-date):

In many cases I need to reference general reports, presentations etc. with unknown authors.

example:

———. The History of Company X, Vol. 2, New York: University Press, 1900.

I don't want to type a bar into the author field, because I don't want it to show up in parenthetical citations.

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Q.2

When using Chicago manual with parenthetical citations, in some cases, I also need to add endnotes at the very end of the document.

Can this be done in one style?

adamsmith

1. Why would you have em dashes for unkwnown authors in Chicago author-date? I don't see anything to that respect in the Manual.

2. You can use Word's Endnote function, of course, but you can't (and shouldn't) mix actual citation types. I.e. if you're writing an endnote, you should use parenthetical citations within that Endnote. You can insert those with Zotero and they'll be included in the bibliography.

FBehbehani

Great! Thats very helpful, I will do Word's Endnote and use parenthetical citations within.

As for the dashes, see the bibliography image here:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/02/

adamsmith

those authors aren't unknown. Those are all works by Foucault, who is listed only the first time, then substituted by three em-dashes. Zotero does that automatically.

FBehbehani

Ha! If only I had read the book titles, all of this would have made sense!

Sorry about that, I hadn't seen them before, so assumed they were unknown authors.

Thank you so much adamsmith, for you patience and quick response!

Much appreciated.