bug report: CMoS author-date bibliography missing fields

acagust
I'm guessing this happened in the update to the 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. I use author-date format. When I create bibliographic entries and paste them into a document now, the location field for a book is missing. What should show "City:Publisher" just becomes "Publisher." The information is there in Zotero, and just doesn't get copied. I'm putting final edits on my dissertation and had to fix a bunch of these manually because I didn't notice the problem right away.
  • hmarten
    edited 19 days ago
    hiya - this befuddled me recently, but I think maybe what you're seeing is just the change in CMOS 18th edition: place is largely dropped from citations (for books at least). I installed one of the "Classic variants" version of the style, and it is working as expected. If like me you use the drag-drop to paste in a reference from zotero you might also need to reset the "Quick Copy" selection (in Zotero Settings>Export), which wasn't working at first for me. good luck.

    see: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/125429/implementation-of-the-chicago-manual-of-style-18th-edition
  • dunning
    This is a new convention in the 18th edition. The place of publication is still allowable, however, and we've grouped this along with the other major allowable conventions from earlier editions into "classic" variants available for every Chicago citation system:

    https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=chicago classic

    This will also continue to give 3-em dashes and chapter page numbers.
  • acagust
    Ahh, got it. Thank you both so much, hmarten and dunning!
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