Adding Accessed Date to Chicago Style
Many universities require accessed date in both footnote and bibliography whenever a URL is cited. I also think this may be good practice, and perhaps should be considered as a standard feature in the style?
See Chicago Style: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/04/.
In the mean time, I have made the change (UK date style), and thought I'd share it on the forums for others.
Open styles/chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl.
Find the first instance of:
<text variable="URL"/>
Above add:
<date variable="accessed">
<text term="accessed" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
Then find the second instance of:
<text variable="URL"/>
Above add:
<date variable="accessed">
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
Cheers,
James
See Chicago Style: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/04/.
In the mean time, I have made the change (UK date style), and thought I'd share it on the forums for others.
Open styles/chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl.
Find the first instance of:
<text variable="URL"/>
Above add:
<date variable="accessed">
<text term="accessed" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
Then find the second instance of:
<text variable="URL"/>
Above add:
<date variable="accessed">
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="day" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="month" suffix=" "/>
<date-part name="year"/>
</date>
Cheers,
James
More generally, the trend is actually to move away from access dates more generally - e.g. APA has mostly moved away from accessed dates in its 6th edition, as has MLA.
Anyway, I'm sure this thread will still be useful for the many who are (still) required to provide access dates.
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
<date variable="accessed" form="text" date-parts="year-month-day"/>
The order of elements will adjust depending on the locale of the style. Documentation is here.
However, for webpages, I get 2 "Accessed" dates. What kind of if/else wizardry could help eliminate that?
<text term="accessed" text-case="capitalize-first"/>
As the line before. You will want to surround both with a<group delimiter=" "> </group>
pair.Please let me know if you can help.