Chicago Style option to forcefully remove url from footnote citation

aquawho
How can I prevent Zotero from inserting the URL in the citation. There is the option in Preferences, but it only insert if I don't insert the page rage. Is there a way that I can prevent to insert it in any case? My professor do not like having the URL (including DOI) for journals because it cluttered up the footnotes. My professor will accept URL if it is cited something else other than journals. There is journals with DOI, and the non-DOI one that will use long string of url like Proquest, hence the clutter.

Also I am not sure if there is a bug in zotero. It said with the option uncheck, it will include the url in the citation if the page range is not specified. I have few citation with page range and what page it is cited in, it still include the url.
  • adamsmith
    Chicago style will always include the URLified DOI, (https://doi.org/10.1234/567889) so I assume that's what you're seeing on that last point and that's intended behavior, not a bug.

    Otherwise, journal articles should not include URLs unless they do not have a page range in Zotero. Adding that should remove it.

    While it's possible to change the style to remove all URLs -- including URLified DOIs, that's quite a bit more involved and if you're just writing term papers it's probably quicker to just remove the URLs before sending off the paper.
  • aquawho
    I apologize if I am not clear. I understand the URL will be include in the citation if the page range is not set. I am saying that my citation have the page range and Zotero put the URL regardless my citation option is unchecked. That why I said it seem a bug. Here is my footnote Chicago citation with URL with page range.

    Judy Reilly and Marina L. McIntire, “American Sign Language and Pidgin Sign English: What’s the Difference?,” Gallaudet University Press, Sign Language Studies, 27 (1980): 152, https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.1980.0021.

    Brian H. Greenwald, “The Real ‘Toll’ of A. G. Bell: Lessons about Eugenics,” Sign Language Studies 9, no. 3 (2009): 259, https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.0.0020.

    Marc Marschark and ChongMin Lee, “Navigating Two Languages in the Classroom: Goals, Evidence, and Outcomes,” in Bilingualism and Bilingual Deaf Education, by Marc Marschark, Gladys Tang, and Harry Knoors (Oxford, UNITED STATES: Oxford University Press, 2014), 214, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/gallaudet/detail.action?docID=1685689.


    Here is the Biblography:

    Reilly, Judy, and Marina L. McIntire. “American Sign Language and Pidgin Sign English: What’s the Difference?” Gallaudet University Press, Sign Language Studies, 27 (1980): 151–92. https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.1980.0021.

    Greenwald, Brian H. “The Real ‘Toll’ of A. G. Bell: Lessons about Eugenics.” Sign Language Studies 9, no. 3 (2009): 258–65. https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.0.0020.

    Marschark, Marc, and ChongMin Lee. “Navigating Two Languages in the Classroom: Goals, Evidence, and Outcomes.” In Bilingualism and Bilingual Deaf Education, by Marc Marschark, Gladys Tang, and Harry Knoors, 213–41. Oxford, UNITED STATES: Oxford University Press, 2014. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/gallaudet/detail.action?docID=1685689.


    As you can see, it seem Zotero is ignoring my option and included the URL with the page range. Based on your post, I understand it always included DOI because the citation demand it. I realized on that part. But what about Marschark, it not a DOI link, it is a link to ProQuest. Am I misunderstanding it? Again, English is not my first language.

    My zotero version is 5.0.44-beta.1+89d7dad12
  • adamsmith
    The Marschark is a book chapter and not a journal article. The "Include URL" checkbox only affects articles (Journal and Magazine). If you mean to cite the ebook chapter, the URL is correct there. Otherwise consider removing it from the Zotero entry.
  • kckw.chung
    I had the same issue, and I solved it through creating my own template. First, you go here http://editor.citationstyles.org/about/ and search for "chicago." Then you click on the edit button below "Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note)" and wait until the "example citation" and "example bibliography" pop up. Finally, you click on the DOI string in the example citation, then on the minus button in the interface left to remove the DOI from the footnote, then you click on Info left of the minus and change the title (first row). Then you go Style (bottom left) and Save Style.

    That worked for me. Now I only have the DOI in the bibliography.
  • mcv2
    @kckw.chung thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for!
  • damnation
    Note thought that you will need to change your style name, self link and ID as well. Otherwise your new style won't pop up in Zotero.
    See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
  • mcv2
    Yes, good point. The online editor actually prompted me to do this first, so I just added a couple of words to the title and the file I saved from there was good to go, not complicated at all :)
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