BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ chicago | Error with 'editor' field

[pwsmith]

This problem has gone unsolved for almost a year now, despite having scoured the internet and asked everyone I know who works with BibTeX. I would be greatly indebted to you for your help.

I am using the bibtex-chicago package, and it works beautifully for my footnotes...with one exception: whenever I include an editor of a book in my .bib file, it prints with "cbyeditor" in front of the editor's name, rather than "ed." and I cannot figure out why or how to fix it.

Here is an example entry from my .bib file that causes this issue:

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@BOOK{pag84,
  title = "The Glenn Gould Reader",
  author = "Glenn Gould",
  editor = "Tim Page",
  publisher = "Knopf",
  address = "New York",
  year = "1984"
}

When I cite this book using any citation command (I'll use \footcite[35]{pag84} for an example here), it prints:

1. Glenn Gould, The Glenn Gould Reader, cbyeditor Tim Page (New York: Knopf, 1984), 35.

If I can't resolve this issue, or find another Chicago Manual package that will cite just like this but without the "cbyeditor" issue, I'm going to have to give up and convert my thesis back to Word.

[chreliot]

I found this question because I was having the same issue, and there aren't any clear solutions online.

Here is what I found that solved it for me, and may give some insight into the the source of the problem, though since the problem went away, I haven't tracked it down to the root. Recent versions of biblatex-chicago changed how the that package should be called. Calling the package in the new way eliminated the weird "cbyeditor" insertion.

The change is described in biblatex-chicago.pdf section 4.5.1 "Loading the Style":

With the addition of the author-date styles to the package, I have provided three keys for choosing which style to load, notes, authordate, and authordate-trad, one of which you put in the options to the \usepackage command. The default way of loading the notes + bibliography style has therefore slightly changed. With early versions of biblatex-chicago-notes, the standard way of loading the package was via a call to biblatex, e.g.:

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     \usepackage[style=chicago-notes,strict,backend=bibtex8,%
     babel=other,bibencoding=inputenc]{biblatex}

Now, the default way to load the style, and one that will in the vast majority of standard cases produce the same results as the old invocation, will look like this:

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     \usepackage[notes,strict,backend=biber,autolang=other,%
     bibencoding=inputenc]{biblatex-chicago}