style: last names, short titles and p. or pp. on footnotes

danistrum · January 9, 2018

Is there any style with last names, short titles and p. or pp. on footnotes?

Is it possible to add to Chicago?

If I do it manually, every time I change something in a footnote, the entire document gets bugged.

Than you.

damnation · January 9, 2018

You can use the example search to find a style close to your desired output and then modify it. http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/

danistrum · January 10, 2018

But it only shows "in text" citation and I need for footnotes with: last names, short titles and p. or pp.

adamsmith · January 10, 2018

in-text is misleading there. It searches whatever the citation is, i.e. also the footnote format. I'm guessing, though, that Chicago (Note) is your best option and you'd have to modify it. https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

danistrum · January 10, 2018

I have been using Chicago. I just need to add the p. and pp. As a historian, I am more familiar with the lives of dead people than with software programming. Is there any shortcut?

bwiernik · January 10, 2018

The visual editor (linked above by adamsmith) is pretty accessible.

damnation · January 11, 2018

If you specify a bit which Chicago style you're using and want to adapt as well as for which item type you want to make the pp. change, then we'll also be able to point you in the right direction.

danistrum · January 11, 2018

Thanks a lot! I am using Chicago note (short). I want to make the change for every time I mention a page number. P. for a single page and pp. for multiple pages.

damnation · January 11, 2018

Chicago is not the beginner-friendliest style, but you basically take a line like this one in 924:
<text variable="page"/>

and change it to:

          <group delimiter=" ">
              <label variable="page" form="short"/>
              <text variable="page"/>
            </group>

You then have to also edit lines 5 and 6 to something like: chicago-note-bibliography-edited and save with with that same name. Otherwise the style will get overwritten with the next update. ;)