Unnecessary year in Chicago Style footnotes
I'm having an issue with the following style: "Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note, with ibid.)" I'm using the Zotero desktop app and the Word plug-in on a Mac. The problem is this: When I insert a footnote referring to a work I've previously cited, I *usually* get the correct short-form citation (e.g., "Kafka, Letters to Felice, 540–42."), but for certain books Zotero adds the year of publication between the title and the page number (e.g., "Kafka, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories, 1971, 238."). I can't see any reason that Zotero would be treating different works in different ways. I entered the information into Zotero in the same way for all of the works, I'm creating the footnotes in the same way for all of the works, but I can't get Zotero to stop adding unnecessary dates to a random subset of those works. And it's always the same works--Zotero always adds the year of publication for some works, and never adds it for the others, but it's consistent for each individual work. I know that I could manually delete the years once I unlink the citations, but that's a tedious process to go through for an entire book, and I could easily miss some, so I'd rather find a solution that would be a universal fix. Any ideas about how I could fix this?
1. Your cited references include two or more items with the same author and short title
2. The item is classed as "personal communication" in your Zotero library
See the style sheet chicago-fullnote-bibliography-with-ibid.csl, line 330, available at
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles