Zotero currently supports Chicago Manual of Style in both foot/endnote and author-date styles. Turabian is based on these, though I haven't compared the two in detail to see if there are any differences. Are you thinking (or can you find) any thing that you need in Turabian which isn't in Zotero's present Chicago Manual of Style support?

If it needs doing, it can probably be done, and likely well before Zotero 2.0 comes out, but do spell out any requirements you have on the forums.

@philgons: As the post immediately preceding yours shows, there are people around who are willing to pitch in, but you need to be just a little bit helpful to the cause. The Turabian guide describes two styles, which track the Chicago Manual note style and the Chicago Manual author-date + bibliography style. If there are differences between those styles and the requirements given in the Turabian guide, please lend a hand by pointing them out.

Thanks, Frank. I'm working with some others to compile a list of all of the differences between CMOS and Turabian and will post back here when we're done.

By the way, since Zotero supports EndNote styles, I suppose you could get the EndNote Turabian style from the Thompson website and add it to Zotero. But because Thompson is very clear that they're licensing their styles only for use with EndNote, I strongly recommend that you don't do this. It's a pity that the EndNote styles aren't open-source. That leads to a lot of duplicated work.

Besides, when I used EndNote the Turabian style didn't work properly anyway. It probably still doesn't.

There is now a version of Turabian available at in the styles repository. Please note that you'll need Zotero 1.5b1 or later to use it.

Looks good. Thanks for doing this!

FWIW, to follow up on my previous post above, I think all of the things that I originally thought were differences between Chicago and Turabian turned out to be issues that Zotero presently can't handle properly, like:

• reprint editions
• book reviews
• multi-volume works with different titles for the individual volumes
• forewords, prefaces, introductions, and afterwords by a different author (also here)

or my own ignorance of which item types to use (e.g., conference papers).

Other issues I notice that also need addressing globally, not just for Turabian, include known things like:

• the use of hyphens instead of em dashes for repeated authors
• Jr., III, etc.
• titles ending with question marks

So, I'm afraid I'm not able to offer much help if Turabian does differ from Chicago beyond the need for the date an online resource was accessed. But perhaps there aren't any other differences. I'll post back here if I find out otherwise.

Thanks, Lincoln. Best I can tell, though, Chicago and Turabian are the same when it comes to books with an author and editor and/or translator.

Here's what I'm getting with the new Turabian style for a book:

N: Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison, trans. George Musgrave Giger (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1992), 1:44–89.

B: Turretin, Francis. Institutes of Elenctic Theology. Edited by James T. Dennison. Translated by George Musgrave Giger. 3 vols. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1992.

Here's what I'm getting for a book section:

N: Francis Turretin, “The One and Triune God,” in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison, trans. George Musgrave Giger (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1992), 1:169–310.

B: Turretin, Francis. “The One and Triune God.” In Institutes of Elenctic Theology, edited by James T. Dennison, translated by George Musgrave Giger, 1:169–310. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1992.

This seems to accord properly with Turabian's 7th ed. There are three problems (i.e., [1] not being able to include Jr. for Dennison, [2] not being able to handle the title for the individual volume, and [3] inserting two spaces before "Edited by" and "Translated by" in the bibliographic entry), but as far as I can tell, none of them is a problem with Chicago vs. Turabian.

Sweet. Thanks!

This was a bug, thanks. It's now fixed and should be available shortly from the Z styles repository. Not sure why the changes are not showing up at the moment on the styles page.

erazlogo,

Great work on the Turabian style -- been using it daily. I've read a few of your posts on how to insert the date macro but can't crack the code on how its done. Are you planning on publishing an updated Turabian style with the date macro added soon?

Thanks,
Dean

I'm working in German using Turabian. Everything is okay so far, but for websites it has the date in the wrong format.

It uses
(zugegriffen Juni 23, 2009)

but in German it should be
(zugegriffen am 23. Juni 2009)

Add the "am" and date format should be Day. Month Year

Thanks!

That's something you will have to (and can) adjust in your word processor - how and where exactly depends, of course, on the word processor you are using, but looking into the footnotes or the formatting dialogue is probably the way to go.
Zotero has no influence on the footnote/endnote symbol or number used.

right thread.
The "include URL" should be unchecked - that way URLs only get included when there is no page range - i.e. not for most papers from JSTOR.
If you don't want the URL in any case that's would probably require a slight (but easy) modification of the style, but before I walk you through that I want to understand what exactly you need. Could you give some examples of where the URL appears and shouldn't?`Could you also maybe give an example or two where you would want a URL?

Hi,
I am using the Turbarian style. The footnote format is fine, but the Bibliography should be formatted to reverse the name of the author giving Surname, Name (only of the first author in the case of multiple authors.) It doesn't do that for me - I have to manually change the authors so that they can be listed alphabetically. Can anything be done about that? I have no technical expertise.

Thanks a million adamsmith. I hadn't seen the button for the two field format. That's a great relief.