Hello,
I am new to Mendeley, and hope to use it for my Politics dissertation. However, I am having trouble getting the appropriate citation style to work for me. I am using the Chicago Manual of Style's Full Note with Bibliography format. However, I am finding that Mendeley does not properly format the footnotes in Word. I am using a Mac and Word 2008, with the latest version of Mendeley Desktop. When I insert a footnote, I get the html code inserted along with it, for example, instead of italicizing the title of a journal article, it inserts the bracketed "i" at the beginning an the bracketed "/i" at the end. This html code appears in the reference and that makes the style unusable. While I would consider editing the references manually as I go, the problem would be if I decide to switch my reference style later on (for word count purposes) and if that manual editing would make that transition difficult.
Further, there is not way to specify specific page numbers or a range of pages when you insert a citation via Mendeley.
These two issues now have me considering purchasing a referencing software rather than continuing with Mendeley. I see that this is a known problem, and that this issue has come up before in 2012. I am wondering if now, a few years on, they have been solved, or if this continues to be an outstanding issue?
Any help would be appreciated.
Emma
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