Upgrade StorageInline citation showing author's full name (Chicago)
Using MS Word 2013, with the doc preferences set to Chicago author-date, I am seeing something that I don't understand. Is it a Zotero anomaly or a correct implementation of some obscure Chicago rule?
When I insert a reference to a book by Rene Girard, the inline citation says "(Girard 1996)". That's what I expect. But when I add a reference to a second book by the same author, *both* references then use the author's full name, like this ...
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(René Girard 1996)(René Girard 1989)
Bibliography
Girard, René. 1989. The Scapegoat. Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
———. 1996. The Girard Reader. Edited by James G. Williams. New York: Crossroad.
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I have tried various combinations with four different books by the same author. It always seems to be the 1989 book listed above that causes this behaviour. But why would an inline citation *ever* show the author's full name rather than just surname?
--Matt.
When I insert a reference to a book by Rene Girard, the inline citation says "(Girard 1996)". That's what I expect. But when I add a reference to a second book by the same author, *both* references then use the author's full name, like this ...
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(René Girard 1996)(René Girard 1989)
Bibliography
Girard, René. 1989. The Scapegoat. Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
———. 1996. The Girard Reader. Edited by James G. Williams. New York: Crossroad.
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I have tried various combinations with four different books by the same author. It always seems to be the 1989 book listed above that causes this behaviour. But why would an inline citation *ever* show the author's full name rather than just surname?
--Matt.
What I _think_ is going on in your case is that there's some odd difference (likely the composition of the egu e) between the two works that the disambiguation routine picks up on, treating the two Girards as different authors.
A totally accurate answer within 5 minutes. Thank you Adam.
I copy-pasted "René" in all the Zotero items so that they would all be identical. When I refreshed the Word doc the citations are all back to "(Girard nnnn)".
http://minaret.info/test/normalize.msp
I tried entering items for René Girard with the two possible forms for the é glyph, but disambiguation sees the two as identical - but then maybe strings are now being normalized when they enter the Zotero database (I don't remember what the score is there).
In addition, in the "works cited" list, the bibliography is not sorting by date.
Instead it looks like this:
Gaudio, Rudolf P. 2008. “Out on Video: Gender, Language and New Public Spheres in Islamic Northern Nigeria.” In Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Globalization, edited by Bonnie S. McElhinny, 237–86. Walter de Gruyter.
———. 2009. Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City. Chichester U.K. & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
———. 1997. “Not Talking Straight in Hausa.” In Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Anna Livia and Kira Hall, 115–28.
Try out all three combinations, see if you get the disambiguation for all of them.
If you're able to reproduce this with just two, export those two to Zotero RDF (otherwise all three), open with a text editor (notepad, TextEdit, select all and copy&paste to gist.github.com (no registration necessary), create public gist and post the URL here.