Add condition: If certain language -> do not write book titles in italics

KEBO22

Hello everybody,
I am using Chicago Manual 17th edition (full note) and have the following problem:

In the footnotes, book titles are written in italics. That is how I want it, unless it is a title that includes Chinese characters. For example:

Ye Zaisheng 葉再生, [italic starts here] Zhongguo jindai xiandai chuban tongshi 中国近代现代出版通史 [italic ends here], vol. 1 (Beijing: Huawen chubanshe, 2002), 687–722.

Chinese characters are never written in italics, and also it looks weird.

Ideally, there would be a way to only write the transliteration at the front (Zhongguo jindai xiandai chuban tongshi) in italics and leave the Chinese characters normal.

But I guess that is not possible. So my question is, can I add a condition in the style editor that leaves book titles 'normal', which I have listed as 'Chinese' in the database? If not, is there a way to leave all book titles normal, like article titles?

Thank you in advance and kind regards,
Kevin

bwiernik

This is automatically done by Zotero’s citation processor—Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters are never written in italics

KEBO22

Well, I wish that was the case. Unfortunately I cannot send pictures here, but in the footnotes of my Word file Zotero does write book titles in italics, also those with Chinese characters in it.

Any other ideas?

bwiernik

What style and version of Zotero? This shouldn’t happen

KEBO22

Zotero 6.0.6
Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note) 16.1.2022