Alter csl

dbrear · March 29, 2017

Hi - I'd like to have a style which allows footnotes without brackets and a normal bibliography, like this -

Taylor 1999

Collins, R. 2015: ‘Economic reduction or military reorganization? Granary demolition and conversion in later 4th-century northern Britannia’, in R. Collins, M. Symonds and M. Weber (eds), Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers. Armies and their Architecture in Late Antiquity, Oxford, 18–31 [ the italics won't show here ]

I really have tried to edit a Chicago csl file but admit abject failure. I can't even get the Zotero editor to Find - shouldn't Ctrl-F open a dialog?

Has anyone produced such a csl file which they might donate?

Thanks!

LiborA · March 30, 2017

For first, try to find style by example on http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ If you do not find correct style then ask for new style - follow instruction on https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles
Good help for myself editing is on https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

adamsmith · March 30, 2017

If you just want a Chicago-ish style with author-date in the footnote, you could look at World Politics, which is just that (though very different from your example, which has little to do with Chicago).

bwiernik · March 30, 2017

Also, if you want to try to edit an CSL file to meet your needs, starting with one other than Chicago would probably be a good one. Chicago is one of the most complex CSL styles.