I am using Paperpile with Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (author-date) citations. For some reason, the full date (with month and year, sometimes even day) is appearing in the in-text citation, which is not part of the Chicago style.
For example, “A growing body of empirical literature… (Jones et al. 11/2015)”
I would like this to appear as (Jones et al. 2015).
Sometimes month and day of publication information automatically imports into Paperpile, but if I’m using the Chicago style for citations, I would not expect it to show up in the citations. I even manually edited the Paperpile entries to exclude the month, and it is still appearing.
How do I get this to stop? Particularly, how do I get it to stop without having to manually adjust every Paperpile entry as well?
Welcome to our forum, @Nina_Brooks! That’s strange - Chicago seems to be working as expected on my end. Does the citation style dialog in the document look like the below for you?
If the issue persists - is it happening with all citations? It would be great if you could reproduce it in a document and share that with us via chat or email (support@paperpile.com).
Hi there! I’m reopening this because I’m experiencing the same issue with at least 3 citation styles (which should follow the same format), namely the one for the Genetics and G3 journals (GSA) and the CSE Name-Year 9th edition. I’m sharing an example by email. Is there a particular reason? Papers have been added using the Paperpile button on Chrome. I haven’t experienced this with other citation styles such as Nature’s or Science’s. Any help is much appreciated. Thx!
@Romain_Durand this is coming from the style code—the Council of Science Editors, Name–Year (9th ed.) CSL is written to append month/day in citations for journal articles that don’t yet have volume/issue (early view / ahead-of-print), and for some other types like webpages/newspapers. That’s why full dates are showing up in-text even though other styles only show the year.
Here is a patched version of the style that forces year-only in citations, regardless of whether month/day is present in the reference metadata.
Please download the CSL file to your computer and upload it to Paperpile via Settings > Citation styles. This will then be available to use in GDocs and Word. Let us know if there’s anything else!"
