deactivate 'subsequent' for newspaper articles in Chicago style

Hi everyone

I need to deactivate 'subsequent' abbreviations in the Chicago style for newspaper articles (I'm using the style without ibid.) as I need the publisher and the date with every reference.

I know that meiernik has posted a very similar question a few days ago and have tried to edit my style accordingly, but it doesn't seem to work.

Would anyone be so kind to provide me with the code that I would have to insert in the editor? I'm not very skilled at reading/understanding/editing the skripts, which is why I'd be very glad to receive as many details as needed.

Many thanks!

--this is my first comment in a discussion forum, let me know if any crucial information is missing
  • This is unfortunately rather more elaborate than for the bluebook style I posted this for.

    The general idea for a quick solution is the same: under the subsequent else-if you create another choose -- if/else, test for type="article-newspaper" under if, repeat the entire regular citation there and then include the current subsequent section under else.

    If you run into specific issues we can try to help, post your style to gist.github.com, create a public gist, link to it from here.
  • Hi Adam
    Thank you for your quick answer!
    I've given it a try: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/63eccb89bb62571b2925

    It is not working yet, but I'm not sure to be honest if I a) chose the right code snippet for the newspaper and b) if the place where I added it (case-locator subsequent) is actually the right place.

    Thank you for your help
  • You can find a fixed version of this here:
    https://gist.github.com/adam3smith/a9763ee6beff311a6626
    (you had put a double == sign in there and not quite gotten the conditional right: always make sure you have all tags closing).

    But I don't quite understand: Why are you doing this with the "note" version of Chicago? That doesn't look any different for subsequent citations in the first place. You'd want to do this for the full note style, no? (and remember to change the id, self link and filename the way I did in the version of your style I posted).
  • Thank you so much.
    And yes, what a stupid mistake.

    Here's my try for the full-note style (the "no ibid" is wanted)
    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e58858fb930f59df9406
    - and again, I seem to not get it to work... Very sorry.

    I hope the naming of the file is better now.
    and again, thanks a lot!
  • OK, so that style looks much better and it now prints section and edition for newspaper articles for subsequent citations. But I take it that's not all you want? If you want additional elements, you need to add them where you're currently adding section and edition.
  • Finally, I managed to get the date in. But I still seem to have troubles with the publisher... (line 1152) What am I doing wrong?

    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3f2d3d5a081f3696385d

    Thank you for all your time!
  • I got it to work.

    Here the link to the style for anyone facing the same problem:
    https://gist.github.com/anonymous/512201b319d71083f8ee

    Adam, thank you again for your help.
  • excellent. congrats -- your first custom style!
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