Style Question: Chicago (including Turabian and SBL)
When including a citation as part of a sentence in a note, note-bibliography Chicago styles should eliminate a final period and use a comma after the citation instead (cf. CMS, 16th ed., 14.50). Thus, the proper formatting should be:
John Doe, The Book, regards this position as faulty.
As far as I can tell, however, the current note-bibliography Chicago versions and their derivatives (including Turabian and SBL) still include a period at the end of the citation, even if one adds the comma (or other punctuation; e.g., semicolon, closing parenthesis) in the "suffix" field of the Add/Edit Citation dialog box. Thus, the current output is:
John Doe, The Book,. regards this position as faulty.
So far, I have only been able to remove the period by directly editing the text of each citation individually (Add/Edit Citation > Show Editor). If anyone has a workaround for this issue, it would be much appreciated! :)
Gratefully,
David
John Doe, The Book, regards this position as faulty.
As far as I can tell, however, the current note-bibliography Chicago versions and their derivatives (including Turabian and SBL) still include a period at the end of the citation, even if one adds the comma (or other punctuation; e.g., semicolon, closing parenthesis) in the "suffix" field of the Add/Edit Citation dialog box. Thus, the current output is:
John Doe, The Book,. regards this position as faulty.
So far, I have only been able to remove the period by directly editing the text of each citation individually (Add/Edit Citation > Show Editor). If anyone has a workaround for this issue, it would be much appreciated! :)
Gratefully,
David
In your example, e.g., you should put
", regards this position as faulty". into the suffix field.
So, while it might be more convenient in some ways to have Zotero automatically eliminate the period if necessary (as I think it did at one point, did it not?), as you've pointed out, this issue is more one of mechanics than of correctness, and I've corrected the thread title accordingly.
Thanks so much for the help with this (for me) pesky issue! :)
Auto removing periods etc. is always a bit of a tricky issue (I think, e.g. "ibid.," is sometimes used) so I'm not sure if that's going to happen.
Thanks, again, for your help.
Gratefully,
David