Turabian Comma Missing
I'm using Turabian 8th edition (full note) style. In the footnote:
William Arndt et al., eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 326.
from resource:
Arndt, William, Frederick W. Danker, Walter Bauer, and F. Wilbur Gingrich, eds. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
It is missing a comma in the footnote citation after the first editor's name. It should read:
William Arndt, et al., eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 326.
I know this is minor, just a major inconvenience.
I'm using Zotero 5.0.44 on a Mac with the MS Word plugin for MS Word 2017.
William Arndt et al., eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 326.
from resource:
Arndt, William, Frederick W. Danker, Walter Bauer, and F. Wilbur Gingrich, eds. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
It is missing a comma in the footnote citation after the first editor's name. It should read:
William Arndt, et al., eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 326.
I know this is minor, just a major inconvenience.
I'm using Zotero 5.0.44 on a Mac with the MS Word plugin for MS Word 2017.
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I might have to just take the points off from my professor on my paper, because now I have to much time invested in using Zotero (which is awesome and I can't tell you thank you enough for). I could go back and manually re-cite my paper in word, nah!
But if you're really just talking about whether a URL starts in a newline or not, that's not something that Zotero does but something that Word does. Linebreaks are automated in Word. You can try manually pasting that same citation into Word and you'll find that it looks the same. It treats the URL, just like it would a very long word. I very much doubt that that's actually considered wrong in any reference style, but if you are worried, you can manually insert soft linebreaks (shift+return) in the URL. I'd consider that a bad idea for referencing and I'd be surprised that's what your professor wants but it's possible if you must.
I'm a little puzzled why you're so convinced this is wrong? Have you gotten comments to that extent from your professor?
The empty line probably _is_ incorrect, but that's not what you seem to be referring to?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/obms1rb54wbujp7/Screen Shot 2018-04-14 at 11.05.05 PM.png?dl=0
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html
(Chicago Manual, on which Turabian is based, is very explicit about this: see CMS 14.18, my emphasis
But if you have to, you can make the 2nd line longer by inserting the soft return (that's what shift+enter is) somewhere else in the URL, e.g. after one of the & instead of after the .aspx?
For your second footnote (and the Newspaper article on the Turabian page), there's just not enough space. There's nothing you, Zotero, or anyone else can do about that.
The problem is not related tothe use of Zotero or some other bibliography construction software but the number of characters allowed on a printed line and the number of characters contained in the URL. Even if you were typing by hand without the assistance of Zotero, the URL wrap problem would still exist.
It _might_ be helpful to ask during office hours what your professor's preference is for handling cases where the URL is too lengthy for the available space on the remainder of the line. (I know of one who has a rule concerning allowing wrapping depending upon how many characters exist on the line before the start of the URL.) Realize that you can try to accommodate the desire of your professor by hand editing the manuscript after you have removed the Zotero field codes. It is also important to know the penalty for not following the professor's idea of an appropriate style. One professor I know insists that students use APA version 4 not the current version 6. Sources not accommodeted by version 4 are not acceptable. It can be dangerous to follow the attitude "...if I get docked, I get docked". These two professors have "docked" students one or even two letter grades for bibliographic infractions alone based on the idea that not following instructions means the student has poor attention to detail.