Upgrade Storagedictionary entries in Chicago Manual Style
Hi,
According to my Chicago Manual (I'm using 14th ed. - please let me know if this has changed), a dictionary entry should be cited in a note using the following format:
Webster's New International Dictionary, 3rd ed., s.v. "epistrophe."
Also, they (assuming they are "well-known reference books") should NOT appear in bibliographies, and (as shown in the above example) the publication information is "usually omitted."
Although zotero has a "dictionary" entry style, this does not seem to be the way it works.
I'm entering things manually, as it doesn't look like there's a site translator for OED online yet, so please let me know if I should just be entering things differently. (I'm having some trouble figuring out which pieces of info should go in which field - I don't usually cite this sort of thing.)
According to my Chicago Manual (I'm using 14th ed. - please let me know if this has changed), a dictionary entry should be cited in a note using the following format:
Webster's New International Dictionary, 3rd ed., s.v. "epistrophe."
Also, they (assuming they are "well-known reference books") should NOT appear in bibliographies, and (as shown in the above example) the publication information is "usually omitted."
Although zotero has a "dictionary" entry style, this does not seem to be the way it works.
I'm entering things manually, as it doesn't look like there's a site translator for OED online yet, so please let me know if I should just be entering things differently. (I'm having some trouble figuring out which pieces of info should go in which field - I don't usually cite this sort of thing.)
The problem with formatting the dictionary entry item type with "s.v." is that then the "lesser-known" dictionaries will be formatted incorrectly, and there are a lot more lesser-known reference works than the few "well-known" ones (and the latter are only well-known in a specific Anglo-American context). So if your research requires working with many OED entries I would enter them as separate dictionary entries, but cite them as the OED book entry with s.v. locator.