Since you're only fixing already existing footnotes rather than moving them around it may be easier to use manual Word footnotes with Zotero drag-and-drop/quick copy for both primary and secondary sources.

You can create a manual footnote with Word and then either drag a reference from Zotero into Word or copy and paste it with keystrokes. If you use Chicago Quick Copy style, dragging or copying by shift-command-C will give you a full footnote, shift-dragging or copying by shift-command-A will give you a subsequent footnote.

In any case, you shouldn't have to type in any sources manually. If you use Word plugin, you should be careful about the style you choose, because it seems from your first message that you may be confusing the styles with and without bibliography. No ibid style, for example, is a "no bibliography" style, with full footnotes.

(I'm adding this to my thread from last week because it all stems from the same problem, but if it should be a new thread, please let me know. I'm not clear on the rules for this sort of thing.)

I have two questions. The first, can I use the above suggestion to use the quick copy function on foot notes with multiple sources, or is this restricted to single source footnotes?

Here's my second problem, which I seem to have created while trying to figure out which style to use to best approximate the style requested by the publisher. When I use the "Zotero Set Doc Prefs" button on the tool bar in Word, changing the citation format preference changes the format of all the footnotes in the document. Or so I thought after experimenting and looking through the document after each change. But somehow I have some footnotes employing full note style and some using short notes. And sometimes withing the same footnote citing multiple sources I have one using the short note and one using the full note.

Is Zotero using the shorter cite for subsequent citations of previously cited material, thus explaining the different styles within one note? If so, can I make it stop? Otherwise, I have to go in and paste the full information into the note, but I find that this isn't permanent because these edits get overwritten by Zotero's refresh option. This is a problem for me because I'm having to build the database little bits at the time because the authors have given me only partial information on their sources, and I'm gradually gathering the rest of it. I had assumed that I could refresh the Zotero notes as I received new information and added it to Zotero's database, but if I destroy all of my edits then this isn't a good option.

I'm finding this an incredibly frustrating task. Perhaps I'm approaching it the wrong way? I'm grateful for any suggestions.

Elizabeth

Because they're primary sources from a manuscript collection and the publisher prefers that the full information for those sources appear in each footnote. So what I need is for all secondary sources to have short, Author, Title citations and all primary sources to always use long cites with full bibliographic info. We'll shorten them slightly with abbreviations for the collection names, but I'll still need series, box, folder, and date information each time.

Actually, I'd like to go back to your original explanation:

Apparently the press they are using wants the end notes to be as short as humanly possible. What this means, practically, is that the Chicago note without bibliography style is exactly what I need for published, secondary works. However, they want the notes for manuscript, interview, archival, etc. sources to have the full information (series, box, folder, etc), essentially Chicago note with bibliography. Is it possible to use both formats in a single document simultaneously.

So just to be clear: are you saying there's a bibliography listing at the end, or is all bibliographic information contained in the notes? I ask b/c there's a big difference.