italics in footnote

rach625

How can I italicize a certain word or phrase within the footnote dialog box?

adamsmith

I think you should be able to enclose it in html tags, i.e. <i>this is in italics</i>

rach625

Gee, that works! Thanks so much, Adam!

rach625

The html tag for italics seems not to work for a book title. Any other fix?

rach625

example of a book title in the "title" field: Ernst Lohmeyer's Kyrios Jesus

adamsmith

Not quite sure I follow:
Book titles would be in italics anyway, though, so adding italics to them would reverse that (also, I'd generally discourage to edit the text of the citation proper if at all possible. It prevents proper updating of citations.

adamsmith

What we'd expect to happen would be to have this turn to
Ernst Lohmeyer's Kyrios Jesus
in the text. But maybe I'm misunderstanding you, so some more context would be helpful -- where are you making the changes, where are you expecting them to show up etc.

rach625

Oooppsss! Sorry it's a book section, so "Ernst Lohmeyer's Kyrios Jesus" is the title of a chapter in the book entitled Where Christology Began: Essays on Philippians 2

rach625

I want the chapter title to appear as "Ernst Lohmeyer's Kyrios Jesus" in the footnote

rach625

This is the full citation in FN: Colin Brown, “Ernst Lohmeyer's Kyrios Jesus,” in Where Christology Began: Essays on Philippians 2, ed. Ralph P. Martin and Brian J. Dodd (Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), 7.

adamsmith

OK, and where are you adding the html? You should be adding it to the title of the item in Zotero. Don't edit the citation.

rach625

Yes, I tried adding it to the "title" field in Zotero, but the italics is not coming out in the FN

adamsmith

Could you try in a new Word document for testing?

rach625

Here's what I found out: the html tag for italics works in the full citation, but then the italics is gone in subsequent footnote for shortened title.

rach625

I'm now adding the html tag in the "short title" field

adamsmith

exactly -- the short title field is separate, so you need to add the italics there separately.

rach625

woooohoooo! It works ;)