Dictionary entry

Ane Pretorius
Hi there,

I seem to be having difficulty with my Chicago style dictionary entries.

As far as I know they should appear as:

Oxford Dictionaries, s.v. “trouser role,” accessed January 1, 2018, http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trouser-role.

But instead they appear in word as:

“Trouser Role.” n.d. English Oxford Living Dictionaries. Accessed January 1, 2018. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/trouser_role.

What am I doing wrong? My thesis is due soon and I have tried everything!

I'm using Firefox and as far as I know the latest Zotero.

Regards

Ane
  • bwiernik
    edited January 29, 2018
    It is just that the Chicago style doesn't appear to currently support the special formatting requested for non-academic encyclopedia and dictionary entries.
    http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part3/ch14/psec232.html

    @adamsmith @damnation Should the Chicago styles be adjusted to format entries without named authors correctly?
  • adamsmith
    Yes, though it's a bit tricky as they aren't supposed to be in the bibliography
  • bwiernik
    @adamsmith The number of such cases definitely makes it seem like officially supporting items with citations but not Bibliogrpahy entries is something we should consider adding to CSL.
  • adamsmith
    [Technical note; ignore if you don't care about the technical details]
    I don't actually know where we are with this; I think this may already have changed in a recent-ish citeproc version. The CSL Specs are silent on what to do when an item returns an empty string, so this could just be done (if it hasn't already been) via a citeproc change.
  • bwiernik
    citeproc-js supports this. There is an open pull request on APA for personal communications about this. The hangup was whether the CSL spec had to officially support such items before they could be added to styles officially.
  • teo.w
    Has there been any update to this? I am trying to cite a dictionary in my dissertation and it is citing like a journal article (editors name and publish date, nothing about the dictionary entry)
  • adamsmith
    which citation style?
  • teo.w
    Chicago 17th ed author-date
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