Zotero Revisited.

Step 1: Sync Zotero Firefox plugin with Zotero online acct.
Step 2: Lookup correct Chicago Manual of Style for newspaper articles:

Article in a newspaper or popular magazine
Newspaper and magazine articles may be cited in running text (“As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010, . . .”) instead of in a note, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations. If you consulted the article online, include a URL; include an access date only if your publisher or discipline requires one. If no author is identified, begin the citation with the article title.
1. Daniel Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.
2. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote,” New York Times, February 27, 2010, accessed February 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
3. Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” 69.
4. Stolberg and Pear, “Wary Centrists.”
Mendelsohn, Daniel. “But Enough about Me.” New Yorker, January 25, 2010.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Robert Pear. “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote.” New York Times, February 27, 2010. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.

FROM http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Step 3:  So Zotero will add the ‘Short Title’ instead of the name of the publication.  The name of the publication is the title now, if I can change that field, that should work…  Also Zotero is not adding the date, or URL of the citation…..

Step 4:  Ensure Zotero preferences within Word are set for ‘Chicago – Full Note’ this includes more of the information I’m looking for.

Step 5:  Replace ALL URLs in Zotero with shortened URLs for the purpose of this paper, to avoid epicly long URL addresses in your bibliography.  Also add titles to the Gnews articles and change the publication so that it recognizes the publication is S-R or SDC.  See the ‘Killed in Fall of Two Stories’ Zotero entry for an example of what is working.

Step 6:  Spend more time indexing Zotero as you research so that I don’t have to do this all at once.

Thankfully Zotero did work for me, however the indexing of Zotero was not exactly what I wanted and I had to go back in and re-input basically every Zotero entry into my research.  Bummer.  The idea of Zotero is good…. Maybe with more practice it won’t be evil.