Problem withh Chicago manual of stype (Author, date format)

ebrahim12 · March 16, 2009

When I put citation into the Word, zotero acts differently towards differnt references for example:

"Wang, G., A. Dobermann, C. Witt, Q. Sun, and R. Fu. 2001. Performance of Site-Specific Nutrient Management for Irrigated Rice in Southeast China. Agronomy Journal 93, no. 4: 869-878."

is cited in text as; (G. Wang et al. 2001) [it includes G. which is the second name of author Wang]

While it works fine for other citations for example:

Buresh, R. J., C. Witt, S. Ramanathan, B. Mishra, B. Chandrasekaran, and R. Rajendran. 2005. Site-specific nutrient management: managing N, P, and K for rice. Fertiliser News 50, no. 3: 25-28,31-37.

is cited correctly as: (Buresh et al. 2005)

what is the problem?

adamsmith · March 16, 2009

is there another Wang as an author in the text?

ebrahim12 · March 16, 2009

No there is not any other author in the text with the name Wang.
It acts selectively for some citations. I have checked "info" for all of these exceptions and they are not any different.

adamsmith · March 16, 2009

could you try Harvard style for comparison?
A similar issue is described here:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5699/harvardreference-format-1-author-date-wrong-citation/
Make sure that the issue is not what Trevor (Tjowens) explains.
Maybe this is a bug after all?

puppy_blue · March 30, 2009

Hi!
I want to add the "Accessed Date" of a web to the Chicago style. How can I do that? I have play with the Zotero Reference Test Pane but no success. Please help!

Thanks!

silence · April 8, 2009

puppy_blue:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1348/turabian-citation/

Has a post in it which discusses this. When I did this I edited the 'access' macro of the CMS.csl to look somewhat like my post here:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6541/style-question/#Item_1

And now I have made the minor modification in the second post on that thread.

S