18th Chicago not writing "eds." for multiple editors

I've been trying to update it myself for a custom style, but failing. I'm using the citation style "Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (notes and bibliography)", but whenever a volume has multiple editors, it simple writes "ed." instead of "eds". Any help would be appreciated!
  • Can you give an example? I'm not seeing this but may depend on the exact data of an item.
  • edited 2 hours ago
    These are some examples of citations which have been giving me issues. Now that I'm looking more into it, it seems to only be happening with book sections:

    Jenny Blain and Robert J. Wallis, “Heathenry,” in Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, ed. Murphy Pizza and James R. Lewis, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 2 (Brill, 2009).

    Jefferson Calico, “Performing ‘American Völkisch,’” in Paganism and Its Discontents: Enduring Problems of Racialized Identity, ed. Holli S. Emore and Jonathan M. Leader (Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020).

    Other entries with multiple editors seem to be correctly formatted:
    Trevor Stack et al., eds., Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty, vol. 3, Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (Brill, 2015).

    Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon, eds., What Is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190064976.001.0001.

    I was able to create a temporary workaround by copying the citation guide and editing line 46 to read:
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u15932552/dg25awl837qglrhmx3lh.png

    I'm not sure if this is a permanent fix, however.
  • Right, that's not "editors" but "edited by" abbreviated so doesn't take a plural form and is correct Chicago Manual, see e.g. the chapter example on

    https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html


    1. Kathleen Doyle, “The Queen Mary Psalter,” in The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, ed. P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 64.
  • Thank you for the help!
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