Chicago 17th full-note; book chapter/journal article error

jackw0119 · January 23, 2019

As far as I'm aware, the Chicago Manual of Style says that titles of book chapters or journal articles should be in double quotation marks (ie. "___" not '___'). I noticed recently that Zotero is now putting book chapters and journal articles in single quotation marks. Look back at some older saved work of mine, it seems this wasn't the case six months ago. Can anyone help - why the change, and can I get back to the double marks?

bwiernik · January 23, 2019

This is controlled by the locale (language) you specify. In the Document Preferences window, choose English (US) instead of English (UK).

jackw0119 · January 25, 2019

Thanks - that's fixed it. I'm wondering why that is though - I am a UK user, yet my university and most of the journals I would submit to ask for the double quotation marks.

Also is there anything else that the language change would affect that I need to be aware of?

adamsmith · January 25, 2019

between GB and US English, it's just the difference between the quotation marks and where the punctuation is placed in relationship to them.

The difference is based on the most common usage of quotation marks in a language across styles. We could adjust this for CMoS in GB English specifically, but I wouldn't really know how to decide on that. For journals where we do know they use (US-style) CMoS, we do encode the locale in the style named for the journal.