Author missing in footnote citation

rafael_souza1
Hello,

I have been using Zotero without any problems with Chicago Author-date style but for my current project I need to use full citations in end of page footnotes. However, citations come in various forms and very often do not include the author.

For example, for this one there is no author.

"A Constituição Brasileira de 1988 e os Tratados Internacionais de Proteção dos Direitos Humanos, p. 25."

For this one there are only the authors' last names but not the first.

"BATISTA; RODRIGUES; PIRES, A Emenda Constitucional n. 45/2004 e a constitucionalização dos tratados internacionais de direitos humanos no Brasil, p. 4013."

I double checked if all the info is correctly typed in the standalone version but the problem remains. Also tried refreshing the Word extension. I am using as a CSL-file "Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (note, Portuguese - Brazil)". I've tried switching to Chicago and APA and the inconsistency is still there.

Any tips on how to solve this?

Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    See how this looks when you use Chicago (Full Note).
    If that has full author names, the issue is the ABNT style and we can take it from there.
    If authors are wrong there, too, we'd want to look at the items in question. Export them to Zotero RDF, open the file with a text editor and copy the entire content to gist.github.com, create a public gist a post the link here (but again, that's only necessary it they also don't look right in CMoS Full Note).
  • rafael_souza1
    It still didn't work with Chicago (full note). Here is the gist link: https://gist.github.com/rafaelsouza12/6103940

    Hope it is fixable.

    Thanks.
  • rafael_souza1
    I have managed to fix the problem with authors missing. I didn't realize that I had selected the "hide author" option while I was writing in Author-date style. Nonetheless, the ABNT CSL showcases citations in different forms even though they are, e.g., both articles from scientific journals. In some footnotes it shows the journal's title and date, for others it doesn't. I hope the gist copy-pasted above can help.
  • adamsmith
    Note that the ABNT note style (and Chicago Full Note) are coded so that the full reference is only given the first time an item is cited. Subsequent citations are shortened. It sounds like that's what's going on.
  • rafael_souza1
    Adam, thanks a lot. That really seems to be the issue. However, I've encountered another problem. I have tried refreshing Zotero and the message "myblob.strings.prefix is undefined" appears. What does this mean? How do I fix it?

    Thanks again.
  • adamsmith
    Start a new thread, put that message in the title, include your version numbers, style you use, and an error report ID:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs#provide_a_report_id
    after triggering that error.
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