Update for Turabian 8th edition

mcdown
I notice that Turabian bibliography style has some changes in the 8th edition. The access date for electronic material is now written before the URL. A reference now looks like this:

Brady, Maggie. “Indigenous Australia and Alcohol Policy: Meeting Difference with Indifference.” Australian Journal of Social problems 39, no. 4 (2004): 477. Accessed April 8, 2013. http://search.proquest.com/docview/216244076/13D4D43DE6B1C5C6AEE/1?accountid=26359

It used to have the date (accessed April 8, 2013)at the end of the reference or footnote. I wonder if this could be updated please to reflect the updated style.
thanks
Michelle
  • adamsmith
    generally yes. I don't have the manual and I don't really intend to get it, so if you could see if you can find any other changes or issues in the current version of the style compared to the 8th edition of the manual? I'd rather do this all in one batch than piecemeal.
  • mcdown
    Thanks Adam. I have searched everywhere and that is the only change that I can see in the new edition. Tried contacting them, but no reply. However, there are a couple of other changes that I would like to have made if possible. We use the Notes and Bibliography style, not the Author-date style.

    1. When an author is repeated in the bibliography, Turabian does not repeat the name. The name is replaced with 8 underscore lines ________. Zotero does this, but it doesnt look correct to me, as in:

    Carson, Ben. Gifted Hands. Sydney, Australia: ABC, 1999.
    ———. More Gifted Hands. Sydney: ABC, 2003.

    2. Where there is an item with multiple elements (edition, volumes etc) the edition comes BEFORE the volume as in:

    Translated by Paton J. Gloag. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Clark’s
    Foreign Theological Library. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
    1869.
    Zotero reverses this for both footnote and bibliography. Could we have these the correct way round please?

    3. Websites should now look like the example below, with a 'last modified' date if possible. I presume we can add the words 'last modified' in the date field if needed? There needs to be a full stop after the date in the bibliography (currently it is a comma) and the access date now needs to be in front of the URL in both the bibliography and footnote with no parentheses:

    1. “Privacy Policy,” Google Policies & Principles, last modified July 27, 2012, accessed January 3, 2013, http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
    2. Google, “Privacy Policy.”

    Google. “Privacy Policy.” Google Policies & Principles. Last modified July 27, 2012. Accessed January 3, 2013. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

    Thanks so much
  • adamsmith
    Are you sure about 8 underscores? Chicago Manual wants three em-dashes, which is also generally the standard.
  • mcdown
    My apologies, you are correct. I have always understood it was 8 underscores but maybe that was an institutional ruling. However I re-read the rules and it says 3-em dashes.
  • adamsmith
    The style is now fixed. The updated version will appear on the repository within 30mins (check the timestamp). Update your copy of the style by re-installing it from the repository. (See here if you need instructions for installing styles in standalone.)

    Styles should also update automatically within 24hs for Zotero 4.0+
    In an existing document, you may have to switch to a different style and back for the changes to take effect once the style is updated.
    Any further problems please let us know and thanks for reporting
  • moeuzotero
    The placement of the titled volume and the way the volume is named has changed in Turabian 8th Edition. For example:

    Footnote:
    Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 2, God and Creation, ed. John Bolt, trans. John Vriend (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004), 50.

    Biblio:
    Bavinck, Herman. Reformed Dogmatics. Vol. 2, God and Creation. Edited by John Bolt. Translated by John Vriend. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004.

    Has the Zotero Turabian style updated this?
  • adamsmith
    Zotero has no field for volume title, so this won't work correctly either way.
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