Changing Chicago Manual of Style Citation Form to All Cites short title

gregpriest
My dissertation adviser wants me to use Chicago Style note and bibliography, but she wants all notes (including the first note for a source) to use the short form citation (e.g., Darwin, Origin of Species, 12). The closest standard format I can find in the preferences pane is Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (full note, short title subsequent).

Can anyone explain how to amend the citation format so that it gives the short form even in the first note that refers to the source? Everything else would be standard Chicago style.

I've looked at the instructions to modify the citation style, but I'm not seeing how to do it. I'm sure I'm just missing it. I've never used a markup language, so this is all kind of mysterious to me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  • dunning
    The standard 'note' variant provides short notes for all citations.
  • gregpriest
    That wasn't working for me before, but I tried it again and it is. I'm not sure what I might have been doing wrong. Thanks for your help!
  • adamsmith
    That depends -- the Note version follows the other Chicago versions by only using authors (no short titles) for works that are in immediately subsequent (i.e. formerly ibid) notes. If that's not acceptable you would have to modify the style (but it wouldn't be hard).
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