Journal abbreviations in CMoS 17 and 18

poettli
CMoS 17 and 18 seem to ignore the option "Use MEDLINE journal abbreviations", while the option is available for these styles. (I have tested the "author-date" variant.) I did not find anything related to the journal abbreviations in the Chicago’s What’s New in the 18th Edition page, so I am not sure this is by redesigned or a bug in the style.
  • bwiernik
    @dunning Did your revisions use container-title form="short" (such as for legal citations)?
  • adamsmith
    to be clear, Chicago Manual doesn't and shouldn't use any journal abbreviations, so we'd hope that the preference there doesn't have any impact.
  • poettli
    If I may suggest, it would be better to remove this option from the advanced options of CMoS.
  • dunning
    Yes, I was using the short form of a container title to allow authors to specify a shorter publication name when substituting it for an author. I'll simply remove this.
  • adamsmith
    (@poettli, to explain, the option appears automatically when the style specifies short forms on container titles anywhere; that's what happened here)
  • poettli
    (@adamsmith I see. Thanks!)
  • bwiernik
    @dunning Yeah that makes sense, but I agree that it’s better to remove to avoid this option showing up in Zotero
  • poettli
    Has a decision been made? I still see the option showing up in Zotero.
  • dunning
    It turned out that it was necessary to use the short form of a container title in some circumstances, though not with journals. Unless Zotero can find a way to distinguish serial and monographic usage, I think we’re unfortunately stuck with the MEDLINE option appearing.
  • poettli
    I understand. Thank you.
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