Upgrade StorageChicago Short Title endnote formatting for a book
Hi all,
I have a book manuscript I'm trying to format. The press (Duke) follows Chicago 17th, and I will be doing the endnote system. The challenge I've run into is that none of the standard Zotero formats for this system will produce a shortened version of the title.
What I need: "When following the notes and bibliography system, DUP prefers the use of the shortened citation, even at the first mention. Short cites generally include only the author’s last name, a shortened version of the work’s title (dropping the initial article [A, An, The], dropping the subtitle, and in some cases shortening the main title to around five words or fewer), and the relevant page numbers. The following examples illustrate citations using the shortened citation and its corresponding bibliographic entry. For more
details and many more examples, see chapter 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.
Using Chicago Manual of Style 17th (Note) version, not the full note, I still mostly get the full titles listed in the endnotes. I have tried asking ChatGPT to re-write the Zotero code to follow this and reduce the titles (or just drop anything after a colon), but it doesn't seem to change much. I'm not a coder.
Any ideas? Doing this manually will take an eternity.
For example:
BOOK:
1. Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma (italics), 3.
Bibliography: Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural
History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Article in a print journal
In a note, list the specific page numbers consulted, if any. In the
bibliography, list the page range for the whole article.
1. Weinstein, “Market in Plato’s Republic,” 452–53.
Weinstein, Joshua I. “The Market in Plato’s Republic.” Clas-
sical Philology 104, no. 4 (2009): 439–58.
I have a book manuscript I'm trying to format. The press (Duke) follows Chicago 17th, and I will be doing the endnote system. The challenge I've run into is that none of the standard Zotero formats for this system will produce a shortened version of the title.
What I need: "When following the notes and bibliography system, DUP prefers the use of the shortened citation, even at the first mention. Short cites generally include only the author’s last name, a shortened version of the work’s title (dropping the initial article [A, An, The], dropping the subtitle, and in some cases shortening the main title to around five words or fewer), and the relevant page numbers. The following examples illustrate citations using the shortened citation and its corresponding bibliographic entry. For more
details and many more examples, see chapter 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.
Using Chicago Manual of Style 17th (Note) version, not the full note, I still mostly get the full titles listed in the endnotes. I have tried asking ChatGPT to re-write the Zotero code to follow this and reduce the titles (or just drop anything after a colon), but it doesn't seem to change much. I'm not a coder.
Any ideas? Doing this manually will take an eternity.
For example:
BOOK:
1. Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma (italics), 3.
Bibliography: Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural
History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Article in a print journal
In a note, list the specific page numbers consulted, if any. In the
bibliography, list the page range for the whole article.
1. Weinstein, “Market in Plato’s Republic,” 452–53.
Weinstein, Joshua I. “The Market in Plato’s Republic.” Clas-
sical Philology 104, no. 4 (2009): 439–58.
That field is generally populated when you import items with an obviously subtitle (i.e. a colon or other relevant punctuation in the title)
(and LLMs don't do well with CSL, so I wouldn't spend much time with that)