Hey, sorry to revive an old thread but I have a sort-of similar question. I'm on Win 10 using the Zotero desktop app. I've got a book where I've used right click > sentence case, but when I use Ctrl + Shift + C to copy the citation and paste it into word, with Chicago Author-Date format, Zotero for some reason is forcing the text back into Title Case?
Can this be amended in the style guide perhaps? The code looks scary/complex though, and I wouldn't want to mess that up
Now I have the separate issue of spending the last 3 years writing in my own customised version of Chicago where I have just used whatever the publication's title-case pattern is.
You can edit the existing Chicago CSL style simply by running a search and replace for text-case="title"--> [empty] (where [empty] just means leaving the replace field empty, i.e. just removing the found string). You don't actually have to understand anything about the CSL file for this.
Edit: for anyone wanting to replicate this themselves, Zotero doesn't have a find-and-replace in its own style editor, so just 'select all' in the style editor, run the find-and-replace in Wordpad or Notepad (textedit on mac), change the text in there, then paste the new version back into Zotero
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Can this be amended in the style guide perhaps? The code looks scary/complex though, and I wouldn't want to mess that up
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing
Now I have the separate issue of spending the last 3 years writing in my own customised version of Chicago where I have just used whatever the publication's title-case pattern is.
:)
text-case="title"--> [empty]
(where [empty] just means leaving the replace field empty, i.e. just removing the found string). You don't actually have to understand anything about the CSL file for this.
Then save that as a new style as described here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
It worked.
Thank you.
Edit: for anyone wanting to replicate this themselves, Zotero doesn't have a find-and-replace in its own style editor, so just 'select all' in the style editor, run the find-and-replace in Wordpad or Notepad (textedit on mac), change the text in there, then paste the new version back into Zotero