Changing citation styles?

DVB
Beginning work on a chapter I chose "Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date format)". I've just been told I should be using Harvard format. For the in-text citations "Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date format)" and "Harvard Reference format 1 (Author-Date)" appear to be identical, but I don't know how differently they lay out their bibliographies; I've looked for comparative examples online, but can't find any.

If they're more-or-less the same, no problem. If not, is it possible to change citation style (using Set Document Preferences) once you've set it for a document? Or would I have to start afresh?
  • sean
    edited September 5, 2008
    Yes, it is certainly possible to change the citation style using the Zotero Set Doc Prefs button.
  • DVB
    Hmmm -- interesting.

    In my fiddling about to see what is where (it's blindingly obvious I'm just beginning to learn how to drive this beautiful beast), I clicked on Harvard in the list, and when I went back to it a bit later it was still on Harvard -- so presumably you can change the citation style once it's been set.

    The oddity is that it's kept the in-text citations, but removed all the page refs I'd added to them. Oh well, no great hassle to re-enter them...
  • sean
    edited September 5, 2008
    Where did you add the page numbers? You need to enter them in the Add/Edit Citation dialog for them to be persistent (and in fact you shouldn't add page numbers any other way).
  • DVB
    I re-entered them all by typing them into the citation itself, so (Tkach 1997) would become (Tkach 1997: 56-58). They seem to stay put when I exit the OpenOffice document.

    I've just followed your advice and it comes out as (Tkach 1997, pp. 56-58) which I think is more unwieldy.
  • sean
    If you want a citation to appear as (Tkach 1997: 56-58), you should use a style that formats page numbers with a colon. Alternatively you can edit the style that you're using to make it use a colon instead of "p." If you edit the citation text directly, you will lose your page numbers when you refresh the document or perform other editing functions.
  • DVB
    Okay, thanks for the advice. Maybe I'll change back to Chicago again and see what that gives me.
    Personally I far prefer using footnotes or endnotes for references, with fairly unobtrusive little numbers in the text; but this is a Sociology doctoral thesis, and they always like to litter their text with (Author Date: page), however unreadable it makes it...
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