# Chicago 17 - Excessive comma when no pages cited

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**Created:** [December 12, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/chicago-17-excessive-comma-when-no-pages-cited/732174 "2025-12-12T09:39:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/chicago-17-excessive-comma-when-no-pages-cited/732174/1 "2025-12-12T09:39:07Z")

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I am using a slightly customized Chicago 17 Footnote style. My output style formatting for a book looks like this:

`Author, Title| [Translated Title]|, vol.·Volume|, ed.·Series Editor|, trans.·Translator|, Edition.·ed.|, Number of Volumes·vols.|, ed.·Editor|, Series Title|, vol.·Series Volume| (|Place Published|: Publisher|, Date, Year|; repr.,·Reprint Edition|)| Type of Work|. URL|,·Cited Pages|`

This formatting is intended to add a comma after the closing parentheses if cited pages are present, and to omit the comma if there are no cited pages. However, the output I get is incorrect when pages are not present.

Using {Eisenstadt, 2003 #1544 12-13} should produce:

> Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, ed., Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities: A Collection of Essays (Leiden et al.: Brill, 2003), 12-13.

And it does.

Using {Eisenstadt, 2003 #1544} should produce:

> Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, ed., Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities: A Collection of Essays (Leiden et al.: Brill, 2003).

Instead, it produces:

> Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, ed., Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities: A Collection of Essays (Leiden et al.: Brill, 2003),.

In other words, a comma appears after the parentheses even when no cited pages are given.

How do I fix this?