Entering Bibliography -- wrong format

CRiggall

I'm trying to create my Bibliography. I chose the Chicago style. When it creates the Bibliography, it lists the citations in the footnote format: with author's name in the natural order (instead of Last, First). Any idea how to fix?

Thanks,

Craig

nicolasleguizamon

Hello Craig,
I´m experiencing the same problem and I´m looking how to solve it.
I use Windows 10 and LibreOffice, but I don´t think it´s useful information because everything else run perfectly.
There´s an option to modify bibliography but it says that if you do it with won´t update no more that bibliography, and I´m scare about it.
I guess it´s an error.
Anyway, I´ll keep looking for a solution, as soon as I find something I write you a message. In the same way, if you find it I´ll appreciate to receive a tip.
Keep in contact,

Nicolas

adamsmith

The style is correct and should create correct bibliographies. You'd have to describe what you're doing exactly (which steps) and if you're seeing the same in a new document. Sample output (how does the bibliography look?) would help, too.

nicolasleguizamon

Thanks Adam Smith,
I found the solution. It was a users problem. I will describe it exactly:

The principal problem was saving bibliography at Zotero (software). I´ll explain it.
I was writing the hole author´s name inside the first space to fill ("first") leaving the second one empty. I thought it was for another author, when necessary.
Hopefully I found it was not like this. I realized that "first" means LAST NAME and "second" means FIRST NAME. That´s the way it must be filled.
Now I know that if there are many authors, when you click "+" it adds lines below, as much as you need.

After that, in LibreOffice I went to "Set document preferences" (button) and clicked "CMS 17th ed. (full note)".

Now it runs perfectly. Thanks for your time and hope it´s useful for other users.
Nicolás