Changing citation style removes author names from bibliography

Gurdas_Sandhu
I have a document with citation style set to "Journal of Air & Waste Management", which currently uses numbered list for references. If I change the document style to "Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (author-date)", some (not all) of the references in the bibliography lose the author names. The in-line citations are okay.

If I change to a different author-date style, such as "Atmospheric Environment" or "Science of the Total Environment", everything is fine. But when I tried another style called "Taylor & Francis - Chicago Manual of Style (author-date)", the disappearing author names problem reoccurred.

What is causing this problems with the Chicago Manual styles? I need to use a Chicago author-date style.
  • adamsmith
    do you have an example? That seems odd. And which Zotero version?
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    edited May 17, 2014
    Zotero 4.0.20.2 and Word plugin 3.1.16 with Word 2010.

    Not sure what you need as an example, but here's what one bibliography entry looks like as correct and with error:

    Correct (as style "Atmospheric Environment"):
    Sandhu, G.S., Frey, H.C., 2013. Effects of errors on vehicle emission rates from portable emissions measurement systems. Transp. Res. Rec. J. Transp. Res. Board 2340, 10–19. doi:10.3141/2340-02

    With Error (as style ""Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (author-date)"):
    ———. 2013. “Effects of Errors on Vehicle Emission Rates from Portable Emissions Measurement Systems.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2340 (December): 10–19. doi:10.3141/2340-02.

    Other than this example, the error occurs for another five entries in the bibliography. Surprisingly, those five entries have the same author/creator, though it isn't the same author as the example provided above.
  • adamsmith
    Three em-dashes for repeated authors are required by the Chicago Manual. Presumably the bibliography entry right above that one is by the same two authors.
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    Adam, that answers the question. Thanks!

    For those who come by this page with the same query, this rule is defined in section 15.17 to 15.19 of the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS).

    I now have the problem that what the "Journal of Air & Waste Management Association" is saying is not what they are practicing. The journal guideline is to follow CMOS, but published papers are not using the 3-em dash rule. Which is frustrating because if I follow the rule, I am going to stand out as "odd".

    Is there a CMOS style in Zotero that does not enforce the 3-em rule?
  • adamsmith
    I'm afraid not, at least I'm not aware of such a style.
    You can see if you can find something using http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/
  • woodpainter
    I have five videos and one article by the same author. When I select the five entries, Chicago Full Note> Bibliography> Copy to clipboard, and then paste the entries into a Word doc, the author's name appears in the first article, has ellipses for the second item, and then nothing for the remaining articles. I tried the same paste procedure in a rich text text editor and it showed the same result. In Zotero the author's name is exactly the same for each entry. Any idea why this is happening?
  • adamsmith
    start by pasting it here so we see exactly what this looks like for you.
  • woodpainter
    Allen, William. Create A Private Discussion Group In Flickr - YouTube, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oq-8JdHmvs&feature=plcp.
    ———. Flickr Image Search Using Group Images (Eiffel Tower), 2012.
    Flickr Image Search Using Group Images (Microbiology), 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAHf8kVmZ3Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
    Invite a Person to Join a Private Group in Flickr, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDdecdE12Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
    Using an Image to Search for Information, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB7rBHlCKT4&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
  • adamsmith
    edited December 4, 2014
    OK, can you export those for items to ZoteroRDF (no notes/Files), open the file in any text editor (notepad, textedit) select all, copy, paste to gist.github.com, Create public gist (bottom of the screen) and post the URL here. Note this doesn't require github registration.
  • woodpainter
    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e64ee33292f370a29366
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