New Hart's Rules Ibidem

The New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide on Zotero does not show the 'ibidem' abbreviation when the same source is immediately cited. How could this be fixed to accord with the actual style guidelines?
  • edited June 30, 2024
    This style hasn't been touched in 9 yrs and I don't see it ever had ibid.
    https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:new-harts-rules-the-oxford-style-guide

    Is this requirement officially documented somewhere?
  • Ibidem is not recommended by New Hart's Rules. I quote the 2nd ed. (2014):

    > "Certain Latin words or their abbreviations have been traditionally used to make citations in notes more concise. These abbreviations serve admirably in print but are far less useful in electronic formats, where the notes may appear (for example) in a pop-up rather than in a consecutive list. The reader hovering on a note link and receiving the abbreviation ‘Ibid.’ in a standalone pop-up gains no useful information. For this reason Oxford prefers the author and short-title system wherever possible. Exceptions are allowed for some specialist material (such as legal publications) where these abbreviations are rigidly followed throughout a discipline" (338).

    Again:

    > "‘Ibid.’ is best avoided in favour of an author and short-title system" (p. 338)
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