Hello, I have been having an issue with the "Notes and Annotated Bibliography" style of Chicago 18th. I have been putting text into the "Extra" field, however, when I create the bibliography, none of this text is included as the annotated portion of an annotated bibliography. Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks!
I am sorry to be such a dolt, but I can't get the 18th (notes and annotated bibliography) to include my annotations, either from the extra field or from the abstract. What am I doing wrong? I get the bibliography item, but without the annotations.
According to a report I got over on github, this CSL entry
[ {"id":"liang2018","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2025",10,1]]},"author":[{"family":"Liang","given":"Kathleen"}],"citation-key":"liang2018","container-title":"Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues","DOI":"10.22004/ag.econ.272492","issue":"2","issued":{"date-parts":[["2018"]]},"language":"en","publisher":"Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","source":"ideas.repec.org","title":"Theme overview: the linkages between entrepreneurship and sustainable regional food networks","title-short":"Theme overview","type":"article-journal","URL":"https://ideas.repec.org//a/ags/aaeach/272492.html","volume":"33"} ]
should have "between" capitalized for CMOS 18, but when I generate a bibliography, I get
Liang, Kathleen. ‘Theme Overview: The Linkages between Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Regional Food Networks’. Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues 33, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.272492.
Is style-dependent capitalization even a thing that citeproc can do?
That's incorrect. Chicago title case lowercases all. prepositions, regardless of length, so lowercase "between" is correct
P.s. No, CSL only has one title casing setting which follows Chicago. There are other rules out there, most notably AP headline capitalization, but they aren't typically used in academia
I forgot to mention that user specifically talked about CMOS 18. Don't know whether that matters. I've directed him here, BBT aims to follow Zotero on title casing.
Oh, right, that changed, they now capitalize prepositions of 5 letters or more. We'll need to think about what we do with that -- I'm inclined to think we have CSL follow current Chicago style (i.e. 18th edition). It's a fairly trivial change of removing some stop words. Issue here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/456
It's been the same way in previous versions, but is the period at the very end of the bibliography a must? Some environments where I paste them cannot get it that the period is not part of the full DOI link and the result is a dysfunctional link. I need to manually remove these periods to fix such issues.
Translations are here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales and that's where you'd contribute (though please only in languages in which you are fluent yourself, obviously) -- note that Zotero lags a bit behind in pulling them in, so you'll see that the German ones actually are complete now, just not updated in Zotero yet.
@klleach This is the same problem as mentioned above for which I submitted a correction in September, but it is still waiting for @bwiernik or @adamsmith to review it.
It's been mentioned several times already but there are still other issues with CMOS 18th style. I'm specifically working with (notes and bibliography) style. I haven't seen these issues reported yet from my quick scan of the comments. Apologies if it has, but can you direct me to the fixes?
1. author names should appear as first name last name for all authors 2. the use of commas not periods
correct example: Diane E. Bailey, Samer Faraj, Pamela J. Hinds, Paul M. Leonardi, and Georg von Krogh, “We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing,” Organization Science 33, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1562
zbib generated: Bailey, Diane E., Samer Faraj, Pamela J. Hinds, Paul M. Leonardi, and Georg Von Krogh. “We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing.” Organization Science 33, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1562.
In addition when I use CMOS 18th style (Notes without bibliography) or the archive option it crashes and creates an error page when i navigate back to the page. It happens every time consistently.
If you're using the online ZoteroBib, it generates bibliography entries by default, but you can see the equivalent note by clicking on the quotation marks button to the right of each bibliography entry.
@melissa.ma Thanks for reporting this! We’ve deployed a fix for the crash, so it should no longer happen when using the CMOS 18th (Notes without Bibliography).
Please, I need help here. I have tried to generate an annotated bibliography using the Chicago version 18, but despite entering my notes in the Extra field and ensuring that the Chicago version with annotation is selected, Zotero continues to generate a bibliography without annotations. Kindly support me.
@fatireguna It's not you; as noted earlier in this thread, the annotated styles are currently broken because I unfortunately misplaced a line of code. I submitted a fix two months ago but it is still awaiting review. There are functioning annotated bibliography styles for APA and MLA.
@dunning Thanks for your quick response. When I click on the quote button I see notes style however it still does not look correct (shortens the authors list to et al. however does put it first name last name and uses commas) based on this information as seen on the CMOS 18th page. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
et al. is correct in notes for 3+ authors if there's a bibliography as per CMOS 13.23 If you don't have a bibliography (use the fixed 'without bibliography' style as noted above), you'll get up to 6.
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https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7811
[{"id":"liang2018","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2025",10,1]]},"author":[{"family":"Liang","given":"Kathleen"}],"citation-key":"liang2018","container-title":"Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues","DOI":"10.22004/ag.econ.272492","issue":"2","issued":{"date-parts":[["2018"]]},"language":"en","publisher":"Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","source":"ideas.repec.org","title":"Theme overview: the linkages between entrepreneurship and sustainable regional food networks","title-short":"Theme overview","type":"article-journal","URL":"https://ideas.repec.org//a/ags/aaeach/272492.html","volume":"33"}
]
should have "between" capitalized for CMOS 18, but when I generate a bibliography, I get Is style-dependent capitalization even a thing that citeproc can do?
prepositions, regardless of length, so lowercase "between" is correct
P.s. No, CSL only has one title casing setting which follows Chicago. There are other rules out there, most notably AP headline capitalization, but they aren't typically used in academia
Issue here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/456
Where do I go to help fix the missing translations, and is there a list of "approved" translations?
Example, a report with two "authors" and "contributor", English:
Curie, Marie, and Ada Lovelace. 2025. Test with Style. Final Report. With Albert Einstein. Bodleian Library.
French, fully translated ("et", "avec"):
Curie, Marie, et Ada Lovelace. 2025. Test with style. Final Report. Avec Albert Einstein. Bodleian Library.
German, partially translated ("und", but "with"):
Curie, Marie, und Ada Lovelace. 2025. Test with style. Final Report. With Albert Einstein. Bodleian Library.
There are also languages that are not translated at all.
Edit: Known issue
1. author names should appear as first name last name for all authors
2. the use of commas not periods
correct example:
Diane E. Bailey, Samer Faraj, Pamela J. Hinds, Paul M. Leonardi, and Georg von Krogh, “We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing,” Organization Science 33, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1562
zbib generated:
Bailey, Diane E., Samer Faraj, Pamela J. Hinds, Paul M. Leonardi, and Georg Von Krogh. “We Are All Theorists of Technology Now: A Relational Perspective on Emerging Technology and Organizing.” Organization Science 33, no. 1 (2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1562.
In addition when I use CMOS 18th style (Notes without bibliography) or the archive option it crashes and creates an error page when i navigate back to the page. It happens every time consistently.
Thanks!
If you don't have a bibliography (use the fixed 'without bibliography' style as noted above), you'll get up to 6.