Upgrade StorageChicago Manual of Style date format for journal articles (notes and bib. style)
I posted this here, as a comment on a five-year-old thread, but the title of the discussion isn't particularly clear if someone is searching for this issue. I thought I'd try to make it more visible in case it's helpful, and to invite discussion before making a pull request on Github.
The problem is that currently citations of journal articles include the exact date the article was published (e.g., John Doe, "Recent Findings in Science," _Journal of Research_ 39, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 50-72.) In practice one typically sees either just the year or month and year. As the linked discussion indicates, CMoS is ambiguous about how this. It says: "The year, sometimes preceded by an exact date, a month, or a season, appears in parentheses after the volume number (or issue number, if given)."
I modified the CSL to do "[Month] [Year]" instead: https://gist.github.com/jrwiebe/caeb53b2fabfb78f89ec6ead1a6ed922
Personally I tend to use only the year; see my comment in the linked code on how to do this.
The problem is that currently citations of journal articles include the exact date the article was published (e.g., John Doe, "Recent Findings in Science," _Journal of Research_ 39, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 50-72.) In practice one typically sees either just the year or month and year. As the linked discussion indicates, CMoS is ambiguous about how this. It says: "The year, sometimes preceded by an exact date, a month, or a season, appears in parentheses after the volume number (or issue number, if given)."
I modified the CSL to do "[Month] [Year]" instead: https://gist.github.com/jrwiebe/caeb53b2fabfb78f89ec6ead1a6ed922
Personally I tend to use only the year; see my comment in the linked code on how to do this.