Capitalization of ibid in the middle of a footnote (turabian)

Phenox
Hi all!

Question: do we or don't we capitalize ibid in these three footnotes:

1. See for the relevant pages ibid., 65–71.

2. Beside mentioning Aristotle, Smith (ibid., 17n38) notes...

3. “In short, ideology as a symbolic confirmation of the past and utopia as a symbolic opening towards the future are complementary; if cut off from each other then can lead to a form of political pathology” (ibid., 29-30).

I feel like Turabian doesn't say a lot about the "creative" part surrounding complex substantive notes. My supervisor is asking me to capitalize ibid in these footnotes, but Zotero doesn't. Any thoughts? Thanks.
  • adamsmith
    It's possible to force this to uppercase, but my intuition -- and explicitly the Chicago Manual in 14.29 -- say to only uppercase it at the beginning of a sentence:
    The soil of the Big-prairie, which is of no great extent notwithstanding its name, is a rich, cool sand; that is to say, one of the most desirable description” (ibid., 63).
    Typically, though not always, Turabian follows the Manual.

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