Editing help for CMS 17th autor-date

hsel
edited April 30, 2023
Hello all,
As I noticed from the CMS official site, all in-text citations should use commas for in-text citations. The last updated style i got use double colons ":" for peridiocals. I want commas before page numbers... (Van Houtum, 233) instead of (Van Houtum:233). Which part should I change? I tried to copy and paste a part but it is somehow invisible...













  • adamsmith
    You are not using CMS then check in the document preferences of the word processor add-on
  • hsel
    edited April 30, 2023
    I deleted all the other to make sure I use the correct one :)

    https://imgur.com/a/HJUYhf9
  • damnation
    You're looking in the wrong place.

    In Word, in the Zotero tab under "Document Preferences".

    See
    https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
  • hsel
    Thanks for the answers. Here is a ss from the zotero tab> document preferences from Word..

    https://imgur.com/a/cCGA1HA
  • damnation
    The style does this correct.
    E.g. (Campbell and Pedersen 2007, 244–52; Just Have a Think 2023)
    (Isaacson 2011, 244–52)

    Try in a new document.
  • adamsmith
    Alternativel, reset citation styles in the advanced tab of the Zotero preferences, then, under document preferences, switch to a different style and back. It's possible something went wrong when you deleted all citation styles from Zotero, including the one currently in use in the document. As damnation said, the Chicago author-date style doesn't (and has never) used a colon before page numbers. (Your citation example also doesn't have a year, which is odd and definitely not Chicago)
  • hsel
    adamsmith and damnation, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

    I did what you suggested and nothing happened, but when I re-insert in-text citations, Zotero did a good job.

    What did I do wrong?: As you said before, probably long time ago, I used a different software assuming it will be ok later when I refresh. However, the ones I manually edited were not updated later according to my preferred citation. So, they stayed correct for any other style.

    Thanks again for telling that there is no need to modify my citation style!!
    Best!
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