Leanne,
I think you’ve misunderstood my question.
I used Chicago 15th A as an example. In truth, my dissertation is in Chinese, and requires a style that is not among the 4500+ styles available, so I’ve modified Chicago 15th A to make my own style.
This seems to me to be irrelevant, however, as Endnote’s behavior regarding footnote citations doesn’t seem to agree with what is explained in the help section. For testing, I’m just using a test document in English, and selecting Chicago 15th A as my style.
As you say, Chicago 15th A, does not seem to have any in-text citation templates; this is the same in X3. I tried creating one just to see what that would do (saved the style as “Chicago 15th A alt”), and it doesn’t seem to affect the format of in-text citations at all. I’m not sure why this is, but I don’t think it concerns my question, as I’m trying to use footnote citations.
There are sections for Citations, Bibliography, and Footnotes in the style properties dialog. It’s the templates in the Footnotes section that should determine the format of citations in footnotes, at least according to Endnote help:
According to the help section “Citing References in Footnotes and Endnotes (Microsoft Word)”
To cite a reference in a footnote or endnote:
1.Use the appropriate command in Word to create the footnote or endnote. (EndNote does not create the footnote or endnote in the document, but is used to insert and format citations in the note.)
2.Position the cursor in the footnote or endnote where you would like the citation(s) to appear.
3.Insert the citation as you normally would.
The EndNote style that is selected when you choose Format Bibliography determines how citations in footnotes and endnotes are formatted. EndNote can format these citations as brief in-text citations or like complete references in the bibliography. It can also create a special format specific to footnotes or endnotes, including options like “Ibid.” and other variations of shortened references when a citation appears more than once in the footnotes or endnotes. See Bibliography and Footnote Templates.
It’s this functionality (see bold underlined part) that seems to me to be, well, disfunctional. For a start, I’d just like to get Chicago 15th A to behave the way I undertand it should. Under the footnotes section of the Chicago 15th A settings, there are templates that seem to be identical to the bibliographic templates, that is much more information than (Author Year). Also, the option to Format citations in footnotes: “same as bibliography” is selected from the dropdown menu. So why are my footnote citations still using the (Author Year) format?